RE: Togo new cabinet24 Jun 2015 10:57
© Afreepress- (Lomé, June 23, 2015) - Faure Gnassingbe, 49 elected for the third
consecutive time in the presidential election of April 25, finally appeared at several
hearings on Tuesday granted the Presidency of the Republic, noted Afreepress News
Agency.
The founder of the party Union for the Republic (UNITE), was at the center of a
controversy concerning his health would be rumored, "defective" or "critical". The
information is part of an unknown Blog Togolese and taken seriously by many media,
causing concern in the ranks of militants UNITE party and therefore of the entire
population.
The son of the late Gnassingbe Eyadema finally denied any rumor and appeared in front
of screens of state television TVT after two weeks of silence. A disappearance presented
by his entourage as a need to rest and focus on the tasks ahead in the days and months
ahead.
The Head of State Faure Gnassingbe received on the evening of Tuesday, June 23,
relatives of Bishop Julien Mawule Kouto, bishop emeritus of the diocese of Atakpame,
who died on June 5 following a short illness. According to knowledgeable sources, the
interviews lasted over half an hour. A meeting has taken advantage of the family to present to the President of the Republic of the funeral program. A hearing was also given to
Mahamane Cisse-Gouro, Regional Representative Office in West Africa of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the under secretary of state
for African affairs, Bisa Williams is in Lome since last Monday.
The tenant of the palace of the marina would also have received during that day of Tuesday, the new prime minister Komi Sélom Klassou. The new government is announced for
the next few hours, which has cut short the rumors about his health that would, according to critics, defective.