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At least 35 people are killed and 12 are seriously injured by an explosion at an illegal fuel depot in Sèmè-Kpodji, Ouémé Department, Benin.
2023-09-23

Fifteen people are killed after unidentified gunmen open fire at a farm in Kérou, Benin.
2023-05-1

Citizens in Benin head to the polls to elect the 109 members of the National Assembly.
2023-01-8

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

Five soldiers are killed and several others are injured after a landmine planted by Islamic extremists explodes in Northern Pendjari National Park, Benin.
2022-04-12

A court in Benin sentences opposition leader Reckya Madougou to 20 years in prison after finding her guilty of "financing terrorism". The case has been highly controversial, with a judge in the case fleeing to France and denouncing the case as "entirely politically motivated".
2021-12-11

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

A delegation of African leaders from Benin, Cape Verde, Kenya and Sierra Leone travels to Côte d'Ivoire to offer incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo an amnesty if he resigns from office.
2011-01-3

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