Special Reports

This special report examines the Faure Gnassingbe regime in Togo in order to determine the regime's likelihood to hand over power to a successor regime in 2015. Although the Togolese Constitution stipulates a maximum of two presidential terms of five years each, there is increasing doubt that President Faure Gnassingbe will relinquish power, instead manipulating the political system to seek an unconstitutional third term. There are precedents for this skepticism. In 2005 when