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The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) meeting in Abidjan on Thursday approved a €102.12 million loan to Benin to implement the first phase of the Agriculture Transformation Programme in the country’s savannah region.
The Ecowas chair, Julius Maada Bio has welcomed the restoration of calm in the Republic of Benin on Tuesday, two…
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has written the Senate, seeking its consent to deploy Nigerian troops to neigbouring Republic of Benin for combat operations.
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has praised the Nigerian military for swiftly helping Benin Republic to repel an attempted coup on Sunday.
A coup attempt led by a group of soldiers in Benin on Sunday, December 7, was swiftly thwarted by forces loyal to President Patrice Talon, prompting the immediate deployment of a regional ECOWAS standby force.
African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson Mahmoud Ali Youssouf on Sunday “strongly and unequivocally” condemned an attempted military coup in Benin.
The Nigerian government has condemned, in the strongest possible terms, the attempted forcible seizure of power in the neighbouring Benin Republic on Sunday.
The loyalist soldiers and national guards in Benin Republic have regained control after a group of soldiers announced on state television that they had seized power in an apparent coup attempt and that the leader of the matinées, Colonel Pascal Tigri, is on the run\
Loyalists of President Patrice Talon say they have regained control of Benin, hours after mutinous soldiers announced they had staged a successful coup on Sunday.
Officials loyal to Beninese President Patrice Talon claimed his government is ‘regaining control’ despite claims by a section of the military that they had staged a successful coup against him on Sunday.