Sources: Reuters
The Constitutional Court declares that the parties supporting President Patrice Talon, including the Progressive Union for Renewal and the Republican Bloc, have won a majority of 81 out of 109 seats in the National Assembly. The parties have been accused of electoral fraud by the opposition Democrats party, who plan to contest the results. 2023-01-12
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
Benin receives a shipment of 144,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from India through the COVAX vaccine-sharing initiative. 2021-03-11
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
Voters in Benin go to the polls for the first round of voting in a presidential election with 33 candidates vying to replace current President Thomas Yayi Boni. 2016-03-6
Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, Benin, and Chad join together to combat Boko Haram. 2014-05-17
At least 18 people drown after an overloaded boat sinks north of Benin's commercial capital Cotonou. 2012-12-17
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
More than half of politicians in Benin call for impeachment proceedings against President Boni Yayi over his involvement in a Ponzi scheme. 2010-08-20