Togo: President Gnassingbé Files Another Suit Against Newspaper

President Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé of Togo has filed another suit against Lomé-based privately-owned La lantern newspaper over an August 12, 2010 publication that he has claimed were false and insulting to his reputation.

This brings to five, the number of legal suits that President Gnassingbé has initiated against three newspapers in August. He had earlier brought four other suits against L'Indépendant Express and Liberté newspapers.

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)'s correspondent in Togo reported that La lantern had in its Issue No. 90 accused President Gnassingbé of mismanaging the affairs of the country.

The article in question was with the headline: "Faure Gnassingbé's inability to govern (is being) confirmed day in, day out."

The newspaper also said in the same article that :"Togo's situation is going from bad to worse ...( and that) the head of state first term has been a total failure," as a result of luxurious lifestyles of President Gnassingbé and his friends and massive violations of human rights.

The Lomé Magistrate court has fixed September 8 as the day it will commence hearing of this latest suit.

-September 06, 2010 by Media Foundation for West Africa (Accra)

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Source: allafrica.com/stories/201009061032.html (accessed on 07.09.2010)