Benin

That is the primary interview with the Beninese president since his controversial re-election on April 11, within the absence of the opposition's heavyweights who couldn't resist him. Why are most of those opposition figures being prosecuted by the Benin judiciary? Now that he has been re-elected, is Patrice Talon able to forgive them? Is he planning a 3rd interval in 2026? In Cotonou he solutions questions from Christophe Boisbouvier from RFI and Marc Perelman from France 24 ..

The Benin people are called to the elections on Sunday for the first round of an already disputed presidential election. In addition to three candidates, including current President Patrice and the opposition, several of his candidacies were considered invalid by the Electoral Commission. .

Following the controversy surrounding the unplayed match between Sierra Leone and Benin on Tuesday, March 30, the five Benin internationals who had tested positive for Covid-19 in Freetown returned to France. And everyone has tested negative by their respective clubs. Steve Mounié (Brest), Cédric Hountondji and Jodel Dossou (Clermont) could even play the weekend of April 3-4.…

It's unlikely that their arrival will go unnoticed: in Benin, throughout the month of December, kids in costumes, masked and outfitted with musical devices from home to deal with, sing and dance to gather sweets. That is the custom of Kaléta, named after a worm made within the southern a part of the nation. A convention that proclaims this yr's celebration. A report by our correspondent Sandra Idossou.…

Nigeria opened key border posts with Cameroon, Benin and Niger on Wednesday. The Abuja authorities introduced this within the afternoon. Nigeria closed its borders in August 2019, formally to cease smuggling and encourage native manufacturing. as reported from Lagos, Liza FabbianIt was the International Minister who made this…

The African Court docket of Human Rights and Peoples' Rights has been seized by a Beninese citizen whose identify has not been revealed on Friday, a really important verdict for the authorities in Porto Novo, provided that the structure revised by Parliament in November 2019 ought to be repealed. ACHPR accuses the authorities of getting "violated the beliefs of the 1990 structure" and orders a return to…

Following the open letter from Sébastien Ajavon's lawyer demanding that his consumer's conviction be "invalidated", the federal government spokesman replied that "the judges are impartial" and {that a} change within the state of affairs couldn't be made. than by judicial overview. "An Unsurpassed Decline in Civil Liberties", a…

This decision was taken in late September by the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons, which regulates asylum applications in France, and was published on Tuesday. According to the President of Ofpra, it is motivated by "the situation of public and political freedoms in this country". The organization believes that Benin no longer meets the definition of these "safe…

French deputies on Tuesday night passed the bill on the return of works of art in Benin and Senegal. Paris intends to return 26 pieces to Cotonou and saber of El Hadj Omar Tall to Dakar. The restitution project was unanimously voted on by the deputies, even the right-wing elected representatives supported it. It is almost…

Turn young Beninese out of school in rural areas into green entrepreneurs. This is the Women Agripreneures project, a project set up by the Les Jardins de l'Espoir association, which has been promoting agro-ecology in several places in southern Benin for four years. There are four phases, funded by the American organization IREX: fifteen days of introduction to agroecology, internship on a farm for three months, training in entrepreneurship and monitoring of each participant. The goal is for them to become financially…