Benin News

Benin overcame the formidable challenge of Angola on Sunday to join Nigeria and Cameroon in the last phase of African qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup finals.

The Congolese Minister of Culture and Arts, Esdras Kambale Bahekwa, pledged on Thursday that the country would help en d the entry of illegal immigrants into Europe through cultural programmes.

The World Health Organization estimates 500,000 people are at risk of additional flooding in Benin.

Seasonal rains have battered West Africa's coast, worsening coastal erosion along the Gulf of Guinea, including this southeastern Nigerian town, Ekwulobia COTONOU, 2 September 2008 - Rising sea levels have ...

The Nigeria Football Federation has expressed sincere appreciation to the Government of Rivers State for its immense support for the National U-17 team, Golden Eaglets ahead of their African Junior Championship ...

European Red Sea African Lines , part of the Jordan-based Abu Rashed Group, has added calls at the Port of Baltimore to two roll-on/roll-off export services from the U.S. East Coast to Europe and West Africa.

This story didn't make the usual media, but CIDRAP spotted it in a recent OIE report: H5N1 turns up at Benin poultry market .

DR Congo National Union of Doctors Monday started a two-week strike for better working conditions and increase in allowanc e s, among others.

Prince Tony Momoh, former Minister of Information, says oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula was never part of Nigerian territory.

The 14 Filipino seafarers who were accused of stealing crude oil in Nigeria returned to Manila on Friday.

A cholera outbreak in Benin since July has killed at least one person, with 90 others infected by the disease, said reports reaching here Monday.

Ghana's Veterinary Services Directorate, alarmed at the resurgence of avian influenza in Nigeria, is seeking a meeting with its eastern neighbours Togo and Benin to discuss common measures to prevent it from ...

Extra marital sex is dealing a negative blow on Uganda' s adult population, as married Ugandans over 30 years have a higher risk of cont r acting HIV /AIDS than their single counterparts, according to the ...

DAKAR, 6 August 2008 - Weeks of rains in Togo have forced thousands of people from their homes into temporary government-run centres set up throughout the capital, Lome.

HARASSMENT of Nigerians travelling around the West African sub-region by the nation's neighbours took a turn for the worst recently when five Nigerian citizens returning to the country from Mali through Benin ...

COTONOU, 30 July 2008 - With selective power cuts regularly plunging Benin's largest city, Cotonou, into darkness, Alain*, a young taxi driver, no longer has to worry about paying for a hotel room to have ...

President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has directed Finance Minister, Dr Shamsudeen Usman, to release the sum of N57 billion as part of the N115 billion meant for power projects to the Ministry of Power within a week, ...

President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has directed Finance Minister, Dr Shamsudeen Usman, to release the sum of N57 billion as part of the N115 billion meant for power projects to the Ministry of Power within a week, ...

The deposed separatist leader of the breakaway Comorian island of Anjouan arrived in the West African country of Benin at the weekend and said he wanted to stay as long as possible.

Nigeria has started bilateral talks with the Republic of Benin over increasing crude oil supplies to its West African neighbor from 15,000 b/d to 50,000 b/d, the state-owned News Agency of Nigeria reported ...