While delivering his phone reports from Congo's capital Léopoldville, his wife Marianne gave birth to the couple's first child back in Sweden.
He was back in Congo at the end of 1961 and witnessed from his hotel room how Swedish fighter aircraft under UN flags attacked the post office in Élisabethville.
[2] Faxén was then correspondent in Washington, D.C. from 1971 to 1973 where, in addition to covering the 1972 presidential election, he also had to report on the first incidents in the Watergate scandal, which later led to the resignation of President Nixon.
Faxén reluctantly accepted the position of CEO of Sveriges Television (SVT) from the radio chief Otto Nordenskiöld.
[2] During its first three years as an independent company, SVT had a slightly reluctant CEO who struggled with willful TV channel management and a sometimes partially unsympathetic board of directors.
In the spring of 1981, Faxén had had enough and in connection with a conference in Ronneby, he announced to SVT's first chairman Lennart Sandgren that he did not want to extend his three-year contract as CEO.
[2] Faxén then had special assignments at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs with a position as ambassador from 1992, including West Africa[5] (Niamey and Dakar from 1992, Conakry and Nouakchott from 1993 and Bamako from 1994).