Washington, DC — A decade of constitutional engineering, regional destabilization, and cross-border repression under President Patrice Talon made rupture inevitable. Stability in West Africa now ...

Benin's government says it foiled a coup attempt by a group of soldiers who sought to "destabilize the state." ECOWAS has now deployed soldiers as President Patrice Talon says the situation is ...

Benin President Patrice Talon has prevented the start of oil exports from landlocked Niger because the military government in Niamey refuses to open its border with its southern neighbour. This border ...

Wia dis foto come from, Ute Grabowsky via Getty images On Sunday, some soldiers storm one TV station for di Republic of Benin wia dem bin declare say dem don overthrow di civilian govment. But anoda ...

The carved ivory tusks from the Benin kingdom constitute a distinctive genre within the Benin corpus. Blackmun has been studying the motifs carved in relief on the ivories and has assembled and ...

Nigeria have confirmed their ranking as one of the four best runners-up in the Confederation of African Football (CAF) section of qualification of the World Cup after thumping Benin 4-0 on Tuesday ...

DAKAR, Senegal — When Nadege Anelka first came to the West African country of Benin from her home island of Martinique, a French overseas territory in the Caribbean, the 57-year-old travel agent said ...