Africa: Benin

Two prominent Benin men linked to the country's president and arrested last week on suspicion of planning a coup have be ...

Benin prosecutors said Wednesday that three prominent men including a presidential guard commander have been arrested on ...

In her award-winning documentary Dahomey, director Mati Diop imagines the voice of royal treasures looted from We ...

Lilith Dorsey is an American citizen living in New Orleans, but it is in Benin that she could end her days to feel clos ...

Spectators poured into Benin's capital for a new festival celebrating traditional masks over the weekend as the West Afr ...

Benin and Niger are locked in a growing diplomatic row that has damaged their economies and seen Niger's military rulers ...

Benin voudon religious dignitary Oscar Kptenon is still in shock, ten days after the fall of a centuries-old giant tree ...

Authorities have arrested five Nigeriens at a port in Benin, accusing them of entering the site fraudulently, the latest ...

Gunmen have killed seven Benin soldiers in an attack in Pendjari national park in the north of the country near the bord ...

Working as a fisherman his whole life on the lagoon near Benin's capital Porto-Novo, Antoine Ababe Houssou always believ ...

Benin has blocked border crossings to Niger across the river between the neighbours, sources told AFP on Thursday, in an ...

In the heart of Cotonouâ s large Dantokpa market, Diane Makpenon's family corn shop is less busy than usual these days. ...