ocr: Politics have been dominated: for two decades by General Gnassingbe Eyadéma, who took power at the head of a military government in 1967. - The army is the main power broker, notably the small group of ofticers from Pya on the Kabye Plateau. A - democracy movement has been gathering momentum since 1990, when serious rioting occurred inl Lomé. Many unofficial parties sprang up and were legitimized early in 1991, although since then they have been struggling against Eyadema's ettorts to claw back his power. Multiparty presidential elections held in 1993 contirmed Eyadéma in power. However, these ...
