Provisional election results in Benin show that opposition parties lost all parliamentary seats weeks after a thwarted coup.

Beninese President Patrice Talon's ruling bloc won a clean sweep in legislative elections, eliminating the opposition from ...

Benin-based NGO, Connected Advocacy, engaged the National Centre for Energy and Environment (NCEE) to explore collaboration ...

Last year Benin designated Lee and his producer-author wife Tonya Lewis Lee as its ambassadors for African Americans in the ...

Benin is set to raise as much as $1 billion from a sale of dollar-denominated sukuk bonds and other loan securities in what would be the first African sovereign-debt offering this year, according to ...

Isaline Attelly, a native of the Caribbean island of Martinique, had been living in Benin for nearly a year before she ...

Benin's “My Afro Origins” program is an important piece of President Patrice Talon’s plan to raise his country's profile by ...

With deeply rooted traditions—and a growing contemporary art and food scene—the nation of Benin is beginning to welcome ...

PRETORIA, December 16. /TASS/. About 30 people have been detained in Benin on suspicion of involvement in a failed coup attempt, AFP reported citing judicial sources. Most of those arrested are ...

The Benin Bronzes, taken from what is now Nigeria, have become a symbol in the effort to return looted artifacts to their home countries. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. The long shadow ...

Soldiers attacked the residence of the Beninese president early Sunday morning. Patrice Talon is safe, according to those close to him, and the army is regaining control of the situation. Cotonou woke ...

Fourteen people have been arrested in connection with an attempted coup in Benin, a government spokesperson told Reuters on Sunday. Earlier in the day, a group of soldiers in the West African nation ...