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President Emmanuel Macron visits Cameroon for diplomatic talks to discuss the ongoing food crisis and strategies to increase agricultural production. Macron will also visit Benin and Guinea Bissau on the trip.
2022-07-26

Gunmen open fire at a police station in Karimama, Benin, killing one officer and wounding several more.
2022-04-26

French forces launch an airstrike on a jihadist camp in southern Burkina Faso, near the border with Benin, killing 40 combatants. The attack was a retaliation for the massacre of nine people (including a Frenchman) in Benin's W National Park earlier that week.
2022-02-12

Eight people, including five park rangers and a soldier are killed by land mines in the W National Park in Benin.
2022-02-8

After violent days of protests, Beninese citizens head to the polls to elect their president. Incumbent Patrice Talon is expected to win his second term as most of his rivals are either in prison or in exile.
2021-04-11

The Bulgarian captain of Portuguese-flagged cargo ship the "Tommi Ritscher", who was kidnapped along with seven other sailors by pirates off the coast of Benin last month, is freed. The captain was kidnapped at the port of Cotonou in the Gulf of Guinea on April 19.
2020-05-25

Four hostages, who were being held in northern Burkina Faso, are rescued by French naval commandos, with two French commandos killed during the rescue operation. Those freed include two Frenchmen who had been kidnapped in Benin on May 1 and a pair of women, one an American and the other a South Korean.
2019-05-10

Voting for the second round of Benin's election begins with current President Thomas Boni Yayi stepping down after completing two terms.
2016-03-20

Leaders of the African Union meet in Benin to discuss a resolution of the leadership crisis after deadlocked elections in January.
2012-03-17

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees starts an emergency airlift to Benin which is suffering its worst flooding in decade.
2010-10-24