Military, Technocrats and Businessmen: on Whom Does Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé Rely to Govern Togo?

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The President of the Council, which concentrates most of the levers of the executive despite the establishment of a Fifth Republic which is supposed to give rise to a parliamentary regime, relies on a dense network serving a very centralized power.

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In Togo, the President of the Council, Faure Gnassingbé, carried out a major overhaul at the summit of the Togolese Armed Forces (FAT) and several strategic agencies of the State. This, through a series of eight decrees published on the evening of Monday, August 17, which re-design the military, intelligence and civil aviation chain of command, in a security context still tense in the north of the country. A new patron for the armies At the hear…