Officials from the United Nations health agency and the Beninese Government are urging the West African nation's citizens to be extra vigilant in observing good hygiene amid a recent cholera outbreak that has already claimed several lives.

A new fund managed by the United Nations Development Fund for Women has announced over US$9 million in grants to support initiatives in 26 countries to empower women.

Game room. Photo: EFE/Elvira Urquijo A. LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA.- The Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno -CAAM- hosts the MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ART and more, a project by artist Meschac Gaba .

Contrary to the misconception in certain circles, the decision to integrate the New Partnership for Africaa's Development into the structures and processes of the African Union is aimed at strengthening the programme, rather than at dissolving it, NEPAD officials said h ere Friday.

Cholera reappeared in Southern Benin, killing four out o f the 63 patients declared in Bonou, east-south, about 90km from Cotonou, Dr.

COTONOU, 2 February 2010 - In Benin cholera has killed five people in the past two weeks in a rare dry-season outbreak.

HYDERABAD: Two foreigners, a Nigerian and a national of Republic of Benin, were reportedly nabbed by the Customs Department officials at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Shamshabad, today and narcotics worth several crores seized from them.

Global Fund ambassador Carla Bruni-Sarkozy in Benin with Melinda Gates, left, co-chair and trustee of the Gates Foundation.

China has granted Cape Verde US$ 100,000 to enable it combat the dengue epidemics which left six people dead out of the 20,000 cases r eported in late 2009, official sources told PANA here on Friday.

A senior official of the Communist Party of China met on Wednesday with Benin's President Boni Yayi on efforts to strengthen cooperation between the two nations, according to reports from its city Cotonou.

Underdogs Benin face heavyweights Egypt at the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola on Wednesday.

Grasslands have vast untapped potential to mitigate clim ate change by absorbing and storing Carbon Dioxide , according to a new report by the Food and Agriculture Orga nisation .

Richland police could use another $4,000, but they weren't tempted by the cashier's check the department received in the mail from Benin, a country in west Africa.

Richland police have learned that even police departments aren't immune to foreign fraud scams.

Ghana has increased the producer price of cocoa by 8.6 per cent, jumping up from 2,208 Ghana cedis to 2,400 Ghana cedis per tonne .

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK, and Sangath Centre, Alto-Porvorim, Goa, India Vronique Filippi, PhD London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK Correspondence: Correspondence : Edward Fottrell, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, WC1 7HT, UK.

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Anglique Kidjo made a two-day visit to Benin, her native country, to witness first-hand the UNICEF supported programmes that are helping vulnerable children there.

The news came on December 25, Christmas day, like a bomb, a shock to the opinion. Generating emotion in street conversations, reactions of personalities that count in Benin, embarrassment of lawyers and tension in political circles : it is all about the arrest and sending into custody of Simon-Pierre Adovelande, the national coordinator for the Millennium Challenge Account Program, the most successful and best managed in Africa. The arrest confirms, if need be, the intention of the regime of president Yayi Boni to challenge any potential presidential candidate in 2011. Simon Peter Adovelande had hitherto resisted every maneuver designed to push him down from his top position. For much of the opinion, the Government wants to "kill" a man previously known for his honesty. After interrogation at police headquarters in Cotonou, Sunday, December 27, 2009, Pierre Simon Adovelande was presented again to prosecutor yesterday Monday. His custody was renewed for 24 hours. On his arrival at Court, riots almost broke out between National Police and a huge crowd of his supporters.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Kathy Gohmert is the U.S. public relations liaison for Mercy Ships, which is based in Garden Valley.

COTONOU: Benin's cereal production is expected to be 45 percent higher than last year, but poor storage ruins an estimated 40 percent of the annual harvest, according to UN Food and Agriculture Organisation .