Today, though, map-makers are proud to unveil a 21st-century digital chart that they hope will serve Benin for many years, helping to guide development and preserve its environment. "It's the ...

DAKAR — A budding protest movement has raised further concern about instability in the small West African nation of Benin ... protest movement and recent political tensions, which were brought ...

Benin President Patrice Talon on Wednesday dismissed criticism that his government was holding political prisoners after the jailing of two opposition leaders late last year. The West African ...

Benin's President Patrice Talon on Thursday announced a national "dialogue" with opposition parties to calm a political standoff sparked by their exclusion from elections in April. Benin's ...

COTONOU, Benin — After 52 days under virtual house arrest, the former president of the West African nation of Benin was set free and fled across the border to Togo last week without a word to ...

Benin’s President Patrice Talon will host a national dialog with opposition parties to calm a political standoff that erupted after their exclusion from April elections. Some groups aren’t ...

Preliminary results from last Sunday's first round presidential vote in Benin put political outsider Yayi Boni ahead of his opponents. However, it appears unlikely the former West African ...

and Odinwere of Benin Kingdom, Chief David Edebiri, and the Castle of Legends Initiatives (COLI) have called on all the governorship candidates of the 13 political parties participating in the ...

On 17 May 2020 voters in Benin elected their communal and municipal councillors. Elections went ahead despite the COVID-19 pandemic and political tensions, and a year after the contested April ...

Former Benin president Thomas Boni Yayi left the country on Saturday for health reasons, a spokesman for his party said, after two months of political crisis following controversial elections in ...

Two attendants kneel beside the oba, indicating the hierarchical nature of royal power in Benin. In pre-Colonial times the king was regarded as the highest political and religious authority and ...

Dubbed Benin's "Chicken King" due to his investments ... Talon is tracking down opponents," an official from Ajavon's political party USL, Donklam Abalo, told AFP. "His (Ajavon's) lawyers were ...