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...
BY JIBRIL TURE It’s anybody’s guess whether President Faure Gnassingbe can survive the nationwide growing popular revolt that, for more than two months, has shaken the two largest cities in the country, Lome and...
BY SOUMANOU SALIFOU I was inspired the following remarks by an article published in the issue #6805 of the daily Beninese newspaper La Nation dated Monday, 21 July, an article published on the heels...
BY SOUMANOU SALIFOU The recent abrupt two-month suspension of Cotonou mayor Lehady Soglo, followed, five days later, by his outright removal from office, has a lot—but not everything—to do with the mayor violating his...
BY SOUMANOU SALIFOU The two-month suspension of Cotonou mayor Lehady Soglo due to “grave faults” moments after he was audited on Friday by his superior, the “prefet” of the Littoral administrative region, caused quite...
BY LOU SIFA President Patrice Talon of Benin attended mass this Sunday morning at Eglise Notre Dame des Apotres in Cotonou, an event that drew a crowd of onlookers. A president’s church attendance is...
BY SOUMANOU SALIFOU President Patrice Talon of Benin returned home Sunday after a lengthy, 24-day stay in France for medical treatment that triggered an explosion of vicious attacks on him in the social media....
