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/ 23 April 2008

Observers clear Benin’s elections

Local and municipal elections in Benin passed off without evidence of fraud but with some functional problems, the head of a regional observer team said on Wednesday. The leader of the monitors from the Economic Community of West African States singled out in particular the lack of ballot papers and other materials.

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Africa
/ 14 November 2006

Benin hopes grant will strike blow against poverty

Benin is hoping that a five-year, multimillion-dollar grant from the United States under the auspices of the Millennium Challenge Account will finance development projects to reduce poverty, notably through resolving land ownership and credit problems. The government says these funds will allow it to meet enormous economic challenges.

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Africa
/ 25 May 2006

Benin: 35 burned alive in petrol-tanker blaze

At least 35 people were burned alive and dozens injured overnight in northern Benin when a fuel truck burst into flames while they were stealing petrol, official sources said on Thursday. ”We took 80 people into hospital, of whom 12 died. At the scene, 23 charred bodies have been counted,” Boniface Sambieni, director of the hospital in the nearby town of Tanguieta, told Agence France-Presse.

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Africa
/ 6 March 2006

Benin awaits results of controversial poll

The impoverished West African nation of Benin was counting votes on Monday after the first round of its presidential election dragged on late into the night under the shadow of fraud claims. Polling, which had been due to end at 4pm on Sunday, was prolonged until past midnight in some areas because of logistical problems.

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/ 19 July 2005

Fears of witchcraft fuel infanticide in Benin

Unless a baby is born head first and face upwards, many communities in northern Benin believe the child is a witch or sorcerer. And tradition demands that the infant must be killed, sometimes by dashing its brains out against a tree trunk. If the parents are compassionate, the baby is simply abandoned to die in the bush.

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/ 20 October 2004

Cotton firm’s tortuous path to privatisation

The privatisation of state-owned enterprises is often fraught with difficulties — witness developments at Benin’s National Society for Agricultural Advancement (Sonapra), a cotton-processing firm. Privatisation of the debt-ridden Sonapra began over a year ago in June 2003, but has stalled several times — prompting unions and the media to allege that corruption has taken root in the process.

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/ 16 July 2004

Benin police rescue trafficked children

Benin customs police said on Thursday they have arrested four traffickers trying to smuggle 27 Beninese and Nigerian children out of the country on a minibus, first to Togo and then on to Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. The traffickers were stopped with the children aged between six and 12 at the Hillacondji customs post on the Togo border.

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/ 2 March 2004

United States: So near, yet so far

After difficult negotiations that lasted for almost two years, Benin was finally granted a licence in January to export a variety of locally manufactured goods to the United States, tariff- and quota-free. But, laments Henri Gouthon, president of the National Council of Beninese Exporters, "Benin has nothing to export!"

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/ 26 December 2003

Christmas sorrow after Benin plane crash

Christmas joy gave way to sorrow in the tiny West African state of Benin when a Boeing 727 loaded with Lebanese families en route to Beirut crashed into the sea upon take-off. Some government sources put the fatalities at 82. ”We have never had to live with such drama in our country,” a bystander said.

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