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Twelve out of the 17 passengers of a motorized boat, including eight women and four men died on early Tuesday on Lake Aheme.
Rural populations in Benin will soon have easy access to digital solutions thanks to a World Bank support to the tune of $100 million.
The World Bank, through the International Development Association, one of its three subsidiaries, has granted Benin $100 million, or 57 billion CFA francs, to efficiently fight floods in Benin, APA learned on Thursday in Cotonou, the nation’s economic hub.
Benin’s President Patrice Talon has defended the new electoral process introduced las month, stressing that it had led to “major reforms,” reports said on Tuesday.
Elected for a four year-term, MPs of Benin’s eighth legislature took office at the end of a ceremony chaired by the Office of the most senior officials of the new National Assembly, in accordance with Article 6 of procedural rules.
The legislative elections held last Sunday in Benin had a turnout rate of 27.12 percent for a total estimated 4,992,399 registered voters, announced the Constitutional Court, which also confirmed the victory of the Progressive Union with 47 seats out of 83 seats at stake.
Sunday’s legislative elections in Benin for which 5.4 million people were registered, failed to attract a large voter turnout, APA can report Monday after 24 hours without official figures.
The Bishops of Benin, in a message addressed on Tuesday to the Christian community and the people of Benin, called for “inclusive legislative elections,” stressing that they can only be held through the involvement of “each other” in preserving “peace and national unity at all cost.”
Benin’s opposition leaders, whose candidacy applications for the legislative elections were rejected by the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENA) staged a peaceful demonstration on Monday in Cotonou to demand “all-inclusive elections,”.
The Beninese President Patrice Talon has promised free fair and transparent legislative elections while meeting a delegation from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Cotonou.