Benin News

O NE of the problems of African countries is the great dissonance that exists between declared policy and policy implementation.

The first national show on traditional culinary arts in Benin will be held from 23 to 27 September in Cotonou, sources close to the mini s try of culture, handicrafts and tourism, organisers of the event, ...

Congolese artist and painter, Rhdode Bath-Scheba Makoumbo u, will mount an exhibition of his works from 3 October to 15 November in Bilbao, Spain.

Alphonsus Dike, the Golden Eaglets coach who led the team to crumble Sunday against neighbouring Benin Republic in the African Youth Championship match has said that he would go back to his teaching profession ...

Frank Osodi, the creative hand at House of Bunor, is not an unfamiliar face in the Nigerian fashion industry.

Like every young lady, 22-year-old Ganiyat Osumare, a citizen of the Benin Republic but a Nigerian by birth, was full of hopes for a brighter future.

A tropical flesh-eating disease, Buruli ulcer, is spreading across West Africa and has infected at least 40,000 people leaving them with bloody infected wounds and swollen skin ulcers, which at their worst, ...

COTONOU, 17 September 2008 - If you live along the main highway linking Abidjan, CA te d'Ivoire's economic hub, with Lagos in Nigeria, it is almost impossible to ignore the many AIDS awareness messages along ...

Awadjii Yekin is a 30-year-old farmer in Gangbam, a village in Adjohoun, which is 60 kilometres east of Cotonou.

ADJOHOUN, 15 September 2008 - About 57,000 people in the Oueme river valley community of Adjohoun, 60km east of Cotonou, are threatened with malnutrition and water-born diseases because of river flooding, which ...

Mauritius has proclaimed the Blue Bay Marine Park, in the south of the island, as the second Ramsar Site of international importance, PANA reported.

The 14th International Drama Festival of Mindelo in C ape Verde, kicked off Thursday, featuring several foreign delegations, including those from Brazil, Portugal, Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Spain, Netherlands ...

The head of the West African Office of the UN Bureau for the Coordination of the Humanitarian Affairs , Herve Ludovic De LyseicaLe , Monday pleaded for the setting up of a regional fund and a humanitarian ...

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 .