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Cotonou — Insect pests that attack stored rice are causing financial losses to farmers in Benin, researchers report in the first such study of the crop in the country. But they also found significant regional differences in damage. According to their paper, published in the Journal of Applied Sciences earlier this year (21 February), rice production in the past was
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Cotonou - Benin authorities on Tuesday detained a government minister in a probe into alleged embezzlement linked to abandoned plans to build a new parliament building for the West African nation. Blaise Ahanhanzo-Glele, environment and urban development minister, becomes the ninth person detained this month over the project on which the government has spent about 12 billion CFA ($24m). The
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Cotonou — Researchers in Benin say they have developed an improved method for detecting malaria parasites in mosquito vectors that could help yield better estimates of malaria transmission intensity in different settings. The new technique detects and identifies the four Plasmodium species in the principal mosquito vectors, Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles funestus. It is also enables scientists to detect 'mixed'
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The West African nation of Benin on Thursday held sacrifices and ceremonies for its annual celebration of voodoo, the traditional religion that spread to the Americas with the slave trade. Benin is considered a voodoo heartland, particularly the city of Ouidah, which was a major slave trading port, and traditional beliefs often mix with Catholicism or other religions. While authorities
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Cotonou - At least 18 people, most of them children, drowned after the overloaded boat carrying them sank in a river north of Benin's commercial capital Cotonou, officials said on Monday. The boat was taking passengers across the Héélou River to a market in the town of Togba when it capsized late on Saturday night. "The boat that capsized had
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The international football governing body, FIFA has sent another warning to Benin requesting the cancellation of a court dismissal of the football federation (FBF) president, Moucharafou Anjorin in favor Victorien Attolou. This information is contained in a release addressed recently to the country by FIFA. Benin has been given till tomorrow to see through the situation in order to avoid
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Dakar - A US citizen who was reported to be the victim of cyber-crime has been released by his captors in West Africa's Benin, almost a week after being abducted, local media reported Friday. According to the United States embassy in the capital Cotonou, the man was abducted several days ago after travelling to the tiny West African country to
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Abuja - A US citizen has been kidnapped in Benin, the US embassy in Nigeria said on Wednesday, and sources said the American had been lured to the West African country by criminals met on the internet. A security source said the man had travelled to the country to meet a group of people from Benin and neighbouring Nigeria. He
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Cotonou - Several African leaders met in Cotonou on Monday to examine again the thorny issue of the election of a new chair of the African Union Commission, a key post being contested by Gabon and South Africa. The one-day gathering was held to try to end the impasse after African leaders failed to choose between Gabon's Jean Ping, who
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Cotonou — Fifteen-year-old Aicha is one of the many spice vendors hawking their wares in the Dantokpa market, in Benin's economic capital, Cotonou. But a closer look at her tidy stall reveals a disturbing detail: the powdered spices are packaged in recycled medicine vials. "My mother often gets bottles from the National University Teaching Hospital (CNHU) or other health centres
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Addis Ababa - A handful of African leaders are to meet in the Benin's capital Cotonou on Saturday to try to make progress on resolving the African Union (AU) leadership crisis, following deadlocked elections. With the 54-nation organisation increasingly adrift since splitting in January over whether to re-elect Jean Ping as head of the AU Commission or giving the post
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Piracy is a growing threat to West Africa's plans to double oil production over the next decade and is already having a devastating impact on ports, the UN Security Council was warned Monday. A growing number of attacks are being recorded in the Gulf of Guinea and entries into some ports have been cut by more than two-thirds as insurance
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African leaders gathered Saturday for talks on insecurity in the Sahel region where fresh violence in northern Mali has sparked what rights groups say is the area's worst human rights crisis in 20 years. As many as 25 heads of states were expected at the meeting in the small West African country of Benin. "Many subjects will be discussed. We
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Benin President Thomas Boni Yayi was elected the African Union Chairman on Sunday, taking over the one-year post from Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, officials said. "I want to congratulate the new chairman of the African Union... Boni Yayi," said Obiang, the outgoing chairman, speaking after the official announcement at the AU summit meeting in the Ethiopian capital. "I
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Benin's justice minister denounced the country's judiciary as one of the most corrupt sectors in the country, in a speech Saturday. "Benin judges and magistrates are corrupt and as the minister of justice, I am ashamed of the judiciary," Marie Elise Gbedo said. The judiciary were second only to the customs service when it came to extortion, she added. "Judges
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Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday urged Africans to "take the future in their hands" after returning from a visit to Benin, saying humanity as a whole would benefit from the "vitality" of Africa. "My trip has left me with strong positive impressions. I have come back with my heart filled with grace," the pope said during an audience at the
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Ouidah - Pope Benedict XVI has labelled Aids an "ethical problem" and condemned corruption as he laid out a vision for his Church's future in Africa on his second visit to the continent. Benedict signed off on a 135-page map for the Roman Catholic Church in Africa at a basilica in the Benin city of Ouidah, a centre of voodoo,
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Cotonou — Generally regarded as the motherland of voodoo, Benin is set to be the international meeting point of Catholics from Africa and around the globe for the coming three days, when the small West African country will be welcoming the pope for the third time in its history. Achille, who is in his late teens, is busy cleaning his
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COTONOU, Benin (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI has made an impassioned plea to Africa's leaders to stop depriving their people of hope. The pope made his comments during a meeting Saturday with the ruling elite of Benin, a country that has provided a rare example of functioning democracy in the region. "From this place, I launch an appeal to all
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Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Benin on Friday, marking his second visit to Africa in a heartland of voodoo and warning against "unconditional submission" to the laws of the market and finance. Hundreds of residents welcomed Benedict at the airport, including women wearing skirts with his picture, and crowds cried out to him as he traveled through the economic capital
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Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Benin on Friday, marking his second visit to Africa in a nation considered the heartland of voodoo and after his 2009 trip to the continent led to an outcry over condoms. He is expected to be welcomed by tens of thousands of Benin citizens as well as pilgrims from West Africa and beyond during the
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Vatican City - Pope Benedict XVI brings a message of hope to Africa when he begins a three-day visit to Benin on Friday to meet Catholic leaders and pilgrims from across the continent. The highlight of the pope's second trip to a region that has the world's fastest growing number of Catholics will be the formal signing on Saturday of
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New York - The United Nations Security Council on Monday condemned piracy in the Gulf of Guinea off the West African coast and backed regional plans to tackle the growing problem. This year, piracy in the region has escalated from low-level armed robberies to hijackings and cargo thefts, according to the Denmark-based security firm Risk Intelligence. In August, London-based Lloyd's
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Today, on World Polio Day, parts of Africa continue to struggle to eliminate polio, a devastating disease that threatens our children with lifelong paralysis and even death. Nigeria, which borders my home country of Benin, is one of the last places in the world where the wild poliovirus has never been stopped. Recently, polio also reemerged in several countries across
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Benin's President Thomas Boni Yayi met Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan for talks Sunday on how to combat pirates operating off the west coast of Africa. Yayi told reporters in Abuja he was there to brief Jonathan on the progress of the new programme set up by the neighbours' last month to mount naval patrols off their coasts. The force is
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