Benin arrive at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco looking to turn 2026 World Cup qualification heartbreak into a ...

Chabi Yayi, son of former Beninese president and current opposition figure Thomas Boni Yayi, was arrested early Sunday at his ...

Some 200 West African soldiers, mainly from Nigeria and Ivory Coast, have been deployed in Benin to support the government ...

The west African country has also issued an international arrest warrant against pan-Africanist and anti-Western influencer ...

Benin's opposition figure and former defence minister Candide Azannai was arrested on Friday in Cotonou, according to a ...

There has been no official news about President Patrice Talon since gunshots were heard around the presidential residence.

According to several Beninese and Nigerien sources, the military authorities in Niamey were allegedly warned in advance of the attempted coup in Benin on 7.

The coup that followed soon afterwards in Gabon, in August 2023, was similarly the product of local frustrations. In this ...

EBRD approves €30 million loan to Benin’s state electricity utility Funding targets rural electrification, connecting 120,000 households nationwide Marks EBRD’s first investment in sub-Saharan Africa ...

Benin Republic’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Olushegun Bakari, has disclosed how his country urgently called on Nigeria and other ECOWAS states for military support to foil last Sunday’s coup attempt ...

This is the first time that officials have said how many foreign soldiers were deployed to help thwart the mutiny.

The short-lived coup in Benin left “casualties on both sides” of the government forces and the mutinous soldiers, authorities ...