Nine people including a Frenchman were killed this week in attacks in a national park in Benin’s remote north bordering troubled Niger and Burkina Faso. In a statement late on Thursday the Benin government said an African Parks patrol flushing out poachers and another patrol hit two improvised explosive devices on Tuesday, killing five park […]
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Interception and incineration of narcotics are positive steps, but aren’t enough to break trafficking networks threatening the country’s security. Almost 42 tons of cocaine transited through or were intercepted in West African coastal states between 2019 and 2021, says the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC). These include Benin, Cabo Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, […]
A court in Benin has convicted Reckya Madougou of what critics says are politically-motivated charges. They accuse President Patrice Talon’s regime of pushing Benin into authoritarianism. Benin opposition politician and former justice minister Reckya Madougou was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Saturday before a special court in the capital Porto-Novo. Madougou, 47, was […]
Benin opposition leader Reckya Madougou has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for terrorism by a special court in the capital Porto-Novo, following a brief trial that her lawyers condemned as a “political attack”. After more than 20 hours of hearings, Madougou was found guilty of “complicity in terrorist acts” by the Economic Crime […]
It is done! On November 10, Benin received 12 boxes containing 26 royal treasures stolen by colonial France. This was a historic day when Beninese people turned out to celebrate the return of these works after 130 years away from their land, at the risk of not seeing much. We recount some moments of this […]
Stakeholders in the Nigerian maritime industry have recommended the advanced Webb Port system being used in neighbouring Benin Republic to the Nigerian government as a way of achieving port efficiency in the country. Rising from a town hall meeting organised by JournalNGin Lagos, they identified deeper application of technology as a way to achieving an […]
Benin’s parliament recently voted to legalise abortion. Under the new law, women will be at liberty to terminate their pregnancy within the first three months if it is likely to “aggravate or cause material, educational, professional or moral distress, and be incompatible with her or the unborn child’s interest. Opinion among various stakeholders is, however, […]
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Benin: A Castle Full of Stolen Goods
Germany is the first country in Europe to announce the return of its share of Benin Bronzes to Nigeria by 2022. Thousands of these art pieces were looted by the British in the late 19th century. But while negotiations about the procedure are ongoing in Germany, historians and curators from Europe and Africa demand a […]
It’s time to wake up and realise that Benin is no longer the model democracy it once was. Political, legal and social rights have all been eroded. For almost eight months now, Benin’s former presidential candidate Reckya Madougou has been detained just outside the capital Porto-Novo. Arrested just weeks before the April 2021 presidential election, […]
Cotonou, Benin — Benin set up a service early in the COVID-19 pandemic to allow people to register their business online, and now the West African country is the world’s fastest place to start a business, according to a U.N. agency. Sandra Idossou, owner of a store selling art in Cotonou, Benin, submitted her business […]
The Beninois minister for Development, Abdoulaye Bio Tchané, received in audience on August 6 the clerk of the Residual International Mechanism for Criminal Courts, Abubacarr Tambadou where the two discussed progress of cooperation between the Republic of Benin and the Mechanism. “I had fruitful exchanges with the minister of State Abdoulaye Bio Tchané on the […]
Fears are mounting that kidnapping for ransom could trigger terrorism in Benin. This is amid an already growing threat of violent extremism in the country. National authorities and local communities worry that kidnapping could exacerbate Benin’s security challenges and provide an entry point for extremists operating nearby. There has been no evidence of kidnappers being […]
The Court D’Appal of Cotonou has ordered that Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho should be kept in prison custody pending investigation. The court, however, declined immediate extradition of Igboho to Nigeria. The Court, which was expected to start hearing the case at 10:00am, chose to bar Journalists and supporters of […]
Self-styled Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, was arraigned before the Cour D’Appel De Cotonou on immigration-related offences by the government of the Benin Republic. The Court ordered that Igboho, who is being tried for obtaining a Beninese passport without being a citizen, be remanded in the custody of Brigade Criminelle […]
Supporters of a Yoruba secessionist agitator, Sunday Adeyemo otherwise known as Sunday Igboho, Wednesday, thronged a Benin Republic Appeal Court (Palais De Justice, Cour D’Appel De Cotonou) in solidarity, following his arrest on Monday by security agents working with International Police (Interpol) in that country. Curiously, however, a former Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen. […]
Regional economic integration can boost trade in wood products among African countries, according to the findings of a new report produced by the African Natural Resources Centre of the African Development Bank. The report, Intra-African Trade in Wood Products – Case studies from Benin, Cameroon, Ghana and the Republic of Congo, published on 19 May, […]
Hold first meeting in Cotonou. The first meeting of the ECOWAS Regional Monitoring Committee on the Action Plan 2019-2023 on the return of cultural properties to their countries opens in Cotonou, Benin Republic. The three-day meeting will close on Thursday, July 1, 2021. While welcoming the Committee Members, Mr. Mamadou Traore, Acting Commissioner for Education, […]
Very few things unite Sierra Leoneans like the game of football does. This unity was on display on Tuesday, June 15, when the country made history by securing a place in next year’s African Cup of Nations tournament. The crunch match was played against West African neighbours Benin. Wild celebrations erupted across the capital, Freetown […]