Tag Archives: Benin

COTONOU | Xinhua | Young people from about a dozen movements in Benin on Saturday organized a peaceful march in the streets of Cotonou, the country’s economic capital and largest city, to condemn the attempted coup of Dec. 7, Xinhua observed at the scene. Setting off from Fidjrosse toward the …

COTONOU |Xinhua | Benin’s government said on Sunday that an attempted military mutiny had been foiled in Cotonou, the country’s economic capital and largest city, after armed soldiers briefly took over state television to declare President Patrice Talon was removed from office. How did a country that was long considered …

COTONOU | Xinhua | A group of soldiers in Bennin announced early Sunday on state broadcaster Benin TV that President Patrice Talon had been “removed from office,” months ahead of the presidential election scheduled for April 2026. Identifying themselves as the “Military Committee for the Refoundation (CMR),” the soldiers said …

COTONOU | Xinhua & Tass | Beninese soldiers announced early Sunday on the state broadcaster Benin TV that President Patrice Talon had been “removed from office,” months before he was due to hand over power in April after 10 years in office. A military committee has seized full control of …

The Benin Bronzes were stolen from Africa during colonial times ART | AGENCIES | It took more than a century but they are finally home. The Netherlands have returned 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, nearly 130 years after they were looted by British colonial troops. This shipment is the largest physical …

HARARE, ZIMBABWE | TASS | The United States may open new military bases in Benin, Ivory Coast or Ghana, the AES INFO news outlet reported. Commenting on this week’s trip to Africa by Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Charles Brown, Jr., the news outlet pointed out that the purpose …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lionel Zinsou, a former Prime Minister of Benin, is set to undertake the evaluation of the land compensation processes carried out by TotalEnergies Exploration and Production in Uganda and Tanzania. The land acquisition paved the way for the development of the Tilenga oil and gas …

Cotonou, Benin | AFP |  Benin on Saturday was conducting mass coronavirus testing of teachers ahead of the reopening of schools as part of a plan to loosen measures against the pandemic. The West African nation of 11 million is set to end six weeks of travel restrictions to key …

Badagry, Nigeria | AFP | The days of heaping 50-kilo sacks of rice across the saddle of their motorbike and slipping a few notes to a customs officer are now gone. With Nigeria having snapped its borders shut, the legions of motorbike riders who used to satisfy the nation’s hunger for …

Abomey-Calavi, Benin | AFP |  The display cases at the royal palaces in Benin’s sleepy southern town of Abomey are coated in dust and the exhibition halls plunged in darkness. But local tourism chief Gabin Djimasse hopes all this will change with the return of 26 artefacts from former colonial master …