{"id":7474,"date":"2026-01-15T16:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T16:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1307007.us31.myftpupload.com\/?p=7474"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:52:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:52:55","slug":"false-togo-president-did-not-hint-at-joining-aes-in-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/false-togo-president-did-not-hint-at-joining-aes-in-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"False! Togo president did not hint at joining AES in speech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An X account, Sahel Revolutionary Soldier, on December 15, 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/EjkGD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shared a video <\/a>of Togolese President Faure Gnassingb\u00e9 with a caption that suggested that the president had conceded that Togo would join the Alliance of Sahel States (known by the French acronym AES).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This post had been viewed 73.6K times with 362 reposts, 1.2K likes and attracted 42 comments at the time of publication, so we fact-checked the claim about Togo joining the AES.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We traced the video on X to an address by President Gnassingb\u00e9 at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hyO3r_1Gvb8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">9th Pan-African Congress co-organised by the African Union<\/a> held in Lome between December 8 to 12, 2025.\u00a0Neither the clip shared on social media nor the president&#8217;s entire address mentioned AES or the idea of Togo joining the three-nation bloc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more in this story on GhanaFact: <a href=\"https:\/\/ghanafact.com\/fact-check-did-togolese-president-faure-gnassingbe-announce-intention-to-join-aes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FACT-CHECK: Did Togolese President Faure Gnassingb\u00e9 announce intention to join AES?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An X account, Sahel Revolutionary Soldier, on December 15, 2025, shared a video of Togolese President Faure 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