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A total of 384 children, according to her, were rescued from child - labour in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.

The American people want to know that their tax dollars are making a difference and having an effect.

No fewer than 250 participants from the 15-member nation of ECOWAS will take part in the 2nd ECOWAS International Cycling Tour which will flag off on Feb.

ROME, FEB. 6, 2012 .- "To destroy the family is to destroy society," said the Archbishop of Kinshasa, Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, on the occasion of a colloquium organized in Cotonou, Benin, in cooperation with the John Paul II Pontifical Institute for Marriage and the Family.

WE were driving through the back alleys of Ouidah, a sultry former slave port in the West African nation of Benin, when we spotted him: a figure in robes and leather gloves.

NIgeria last year spent about N2.6 billion to provide security for the waterways of Cotonou, the Benin Republic capital, a development that has so far checkmated the activities of pirates around the area.

Accra, Jan 31, GNA - President John Evans Atta Mills said Ghanaians and the Government would continue to frown on homosexuality.

The 18th African Union summit ended on Tuesday here in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, with a plan announced that the next summit will be held in Malawi.

President Goodluck Jonathan has debunked reports inA a section of the media that he contested the AU Chairmanship position and lost to President Yayi Boni of Benin Republic at the 18th AU summit held in Addis Ababa.

African leaders pose for a group photograph with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon during the 18th African Union summit in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, January 29, 2012.

An annual meeting of the Benin National Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea and of General Kim Jong Il's Works took place in Cotonou on Jan.

An International Monetary Fund mission visited Cotonou during January 9-23, 2012 to conduct discussions on the third review of a program supported by the Extended Credit Facility , which was approved by the IMF Executive Board on June 14, 2010.

Nigerian businessmen and agents at Seme border and also subjecting them to multiple duty payments, which violates the Economic Community of West African States treaty.

No, that's not a photo of a flooded village. Rather, it's of the city of Ganvi in the Republic of Benin, which calls itself "The Venice of Africa." Kuriositas has the details on the history of this curious city: At the beginning of the seventeenth century the country was called Dahomey and was one of the most powerful states in West Africa.

Ghana and other West African Countries Cited in A Major Narcotic Trafficking and Money Laundering.

A FRESH vista was yesterday opened at the House of Representatives' investigation of alleged corruption in the oil industry as the Nigerian Customs Service said there were abuses of due process by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation in petrol importation.

The name Katangua means only one thing to Lagosians: the market where second-hand clothing are sold at affordable prices.