BY JIBRIL TURE Despite the tanks deployed on the streets of major cities across Benin, the leaders of the opposition parties that are barred from taking part in the 28 April legislative elections are...
BY SOUMANOU SALIFOU Since Patrice Talon became president of Benin on 6 April 2016, he has meticulously managed to undo, brick by brick, the democratic architecture of a West African nation once hailed as...
BY JIBRIL TURE The crisis born out of the exclusion of the collective of the Beninese opposition parties from the legislative elections scheduled for 28 April just got worse after the breakdown of the...
BY JIBRIL TURE Updated on Monday, 1 April at 10 a.m. The painful execution of the mandate the speaker of the Beninese parliament, Adrien Houngbedji, received from President Patrice Talon on 6 March to...
BY SOUMANOU SALIFOU The small French-speaking West African nation of Benin was first labeled in 1990 ‘the lab of African democracy,’ then later referred to as ‘the flagship of democracy in Africa.’ But this...
BY SUE B. SIMON Rosine Vieyra Soglo, the former first lady of Benin (1991 to 1996), a high-power woman affectionately called Mama by most people, has been a key player in Benin parliament for...
BY LOU SIFA The verdict dropped like an asteroid from Benin’s skies: a twenty-year jail sentence and $8,600-fine are what the newly-established Court for the Repression of Economic and Terrorism Crimes, CRIET, hit Sebastien...
BY JIBRIL TURE UPDATED ON 31 JULY 2018 The brutal rejection in April 2017 by the Benin parliament of a vast constitutional amendment initiated by President Patrice Talon came down as a humiliation for...
BY LOU SIFA (Updated on 2 June.) Checks and balances—a notion rooted in the separation of powers to ensure no one branch of government has too much power to be able to control another—are...
A government-initiated cab service operated by private individuals proves a game-changer for visitors and nationals in Benin. BY SUE B. SIMON Gone are the days when tourists or businessmen visiting Cotonou, the largest city...
