Benin News

Sheikh Arif Bulbon An applique is a smaller ornament or device applied to another surface.

The Quebec chef who founded the humanitarian group Cooks without Borders narrowly escaped death in a car accident this week in the West African Republic of Benin.

Brazilian Jose Paulo Rubim will not coach the Benin national soccer team due to financial restrictions, according to Beninese Football Federation in Cotonou on Monday.

London, Feelgood vibe sets the world in motion at Womad Simon Broughton, Evening Standard 26.07.10 Phenomenal: Staff Benda Bilili With hundreds of artists from everywhere in the world, everyone's WOMAD will be different, depending on your trajectory and choices.

The Haute Maroquinerie collection features handbags, totes and clutches of exceptional quality nappa leather.

Wilfried LA©andre Houngbedji reports that the Interior Ministry Armand ZinzindohouA© ordered that night clubs in Cotonou curbed down the excessive practice of a dance called Wolosso [fr]. Unrelated to the previous matter, ZinzindohouA© was dismissed and arrested later in the week for fraud.

Benin is a pluralistic democracy with many parties competing for votes, but there is an argument about whether the western electoral system is the best way to promote economic growth.

At the end of its general assembly Friday in Cotonou, th e capital of Benin, the West African Economic and Monetary Union said it would set up a Regional Fund for Mortgage Re-financing . With a capital of CFAF 3.4 billion, CFAF 750 million of which is from the West A frican Development Bank , CRRH-UEMOA is designed to exclusively re-finance housing ...

Sting, a man of many interests, will appear with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra at the Metropolitan Opera on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou , from Benin, belongs on the very short list of the world's greatest funk bands.

ILORIN a ' TheA Kwara State command of the NationalA Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA,A weekend,A arrested four suspected drug traffickers with 209.45 kilogrammes of cannabis Saliva .

Fri Jul 9, 2010 6:46am EDT - Medical personnel working with Medecin de Monde conduct HIV tests at Ouidah's hospital near Cotonou, Benin November 28, 2007.

Benin's President Boni Yayi has sacked his interior minister, the government said yesterday, accusing him of involvement in a financial scheme that may have swindled thousands of people out of 100bn CFA francs .