Arrest of MP Soumaïla Sounon Boké: Les Démocrates denounce an authoritarian drift
The party Les Démocrates strongly reacted to the arrest of deputy Soumaïla Sounon Boké, arrested today in Cotonou while the National Assembly was in t...
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2025 Index of Economic Freedom: Benin stands out among Africa’s most reform-oriented economies
The 2025 edition of the Economic Freedom Index by “The Heritage Fondation”, reported by Agence Ecofin, paints an unflattering picture for ...
Mutiny on December 7 in Benin: here’s why Deputy Sounon Boké was questioned.
MP Sounon Boké, a member of the party Les Démocrates, is no longer free to move. The elected representative for the second electoral constituency is n...
Municipal and legislative elections in January 2026: UP-R bans any posters featuring candidates’ images
As the municipal and legislative elections scheduled for January 11, 2026 approach, the High Political Directorate of Union progressiste le Renouveau ...
2026 Bachelor’s and Master’s Exams: the enrollment register is officially open
The registration period for the 2026 national Bachelor’s and Master’s exams is now open in Benin. The commission responsible for organizin...
Benin’s constitution: after the court’s favorable opinion, Basile Ahossi asks Talon not to sign the law
Invited by Crystal News, the MP for the 17th electoral constituency, Basile Ahossi, didn’t hide his hostility toward the main innovations introd...
Togo: death of Zarifou Ayéva, foreign minister under Faure Gnassingbé
Togo is in mourning. Zarifou Ayéva, 83, former Minister of State in charge of Foreign Affairs and founding president of the Parti pour la Démocratie e...
Putsch or coup d’état: Robert Dossou puts the December 7 events into perspective
Former president of the Constitutional Court, Lawyer Robert Dossou, provided a conceptual clarification on the terms “putsch” and “c...
Education: a contribution of 50 FCFA per student for maintenance of the EducMaster platform
A memo from the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Early Childhood and Primary Education is raising questions in the education sector. In a letter...
Benin: release of Chabi Yayi, son of former president Boni Yayi
Detained in the early morning of Sunday, December 14, 2025 in Cotonou, Chabi Yayi, secretary for external relations of the opposition party Les Démocr...
Benin: new warden appointed to Abomey-Calavi Civil Prison
The Ministry of Justice has appointed a new warden at the Abomey-Calavi civil prison. This decision is part of movements within the prison administrat...
Benin: Chabi Yayi placed in police custody after questioning by the judicial police
After his questioning, Chabi Yayi was placed in police custody on the evening of Sunday, December 14, 2025, according to one of his lawyers. According...
Benin: former lawmaker Octave Cossi Houdégbé has died
Former MP Octave Cossi Houdégbé has passed away. His passing was announced by his relatives. He died at the age of 80, leaving behind a deeply saddene...
Steve Amoussou case: the CRIET overturns the first judgment but upholds the sentence
The Court for the Suppression of Economic Offenses and Terrorism (CRIET) issued its decision in the Steve Amoussou case on Monday, December 15, 2025. ...
AFCON 2025: Benin reassured after match against FUS de Rabat ahead of the tournament
In full preparation for AFCON 2025 in Morocco, Benin’s Cheetahs beat FUS de Rabat in a friendly played Sunday in Benslimane. With less than ten ...
Benin – Ligue 1: Buffles keep the lead, ASPAC impresses, matchday 12 roundup
Buffles FC retain control of the championship following the 12th matchday of the Beninese Ligue 1, marked by ASPAC’s attacking display and a battle th...
Benin: mutineers arrested after attempted coup expected before the CRIET
The mutineers arrested following the attempted coup on December 7, 2025, are due to appear before the special prosecutor of the Court for the Repressi...
Candide Azannaï placed in police custody for “conspiracy against the authority of the State”
The president of the party Restaurer l’Espoir (RE), Candide Azannaï, was arrested on Friday, December 12, 2025, late in the morning in front of his pa...
Benin: Court validates the new constitution in all its provisions
The Constitutional Court declared Law No. 2025-20, revising the Fundamental Law of 11 December 1990, to be in conformity with the Constitution. The de...
Sabi Korogoné reacts after an arrest warrant was issued against him
A few hours after an international arrest warrant was issued against him, Sabi Sira Korogoné broke his silence. In a video widely shared on social med...
Bohicon: two people arrested in the act of selling a stolen tricycle
In Bohicon, in the Zou department, a police operation led to the arrest of two individuals involved in the sale of a stolen tricycle, our colleagues a...
Savè – Surge in gender-based violence: more than 600 early pregnancies in one year
The figures published in Savè by the departmental Directorate of Social Affairs on gender-based violence reveal a worrying situation. Between January ...
2026 legislative and municipal elections: CENA receives electoral materials
The Autonomous National Electoral Commission (CENA) received on Thursday, December 11, 2025 in Cotonou, the materials intended for organizing the legi...
Benin: police seize a large quantity of cannabis after a car chase
On the night of Tuesday, December 9 to Wednesday, December 10, 2025, a patrol from the Illara border police station, in the municipality of Kétou, sei...
2026 elections: parties sign HAAC’s code of conduct
The High Authority for Audiovisual and Communication (HAAC) formalized, on Wednesday, December 10, 2025 in Cotonou, the signing of the charter of good...
Failed coup attempt: Talon receives Nigerian military at the Marina Palace
President Patrice Talon held an audience on Wednesday, December 10, 2025, with the delegation of Nigerian military personnel deployed to Benin followi...
“We, the Democrats, are more than convinced that we will defeat this regime…”, the LD party
In a statement on Wednesday, the party Les Démocrates addressed the events that shook Benin on Sunday, December 7, 2025, and urged the so-called ̶...
Benin: National Guard commander details the December 7 mutiny
In an interview with RFI, Colonel Dieudonné Djimon Tévoédjrè, commander of the Garde républicaine, gives a detailed account of the attack carried out ...
Benin: full report of the Council of Ministers of Wednesday, December 10
At the Council of Ministers on Wednesday, December 10, the government of President Patrice Talon took several measures, the report of which is present...
Benin: Key decisions of the Council of Ministers of December 10, 2025
The Government of Rupture met on Wednesday, December 10, 2025, for an ordinary Council of Ministers. Several decisions were made during this governmen...