Topic: Togo

Gnassingbe Eyadema

December 26, 1935, Pya, Togoland [now Togo]-d. February 5, 2005, en route from Togo to France), soldier who became president of Togo after a military takeover in January 1967.. Eyadema joined the French army in 1953, served in Indochina, Dahomey, Niger, and ...