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The figures published in Savè by the departmental Directorate of Social Affairs on gender-based violence reveal a worrying situation. Between January 2024 and December 2025, 614 early pregnancies and 38 rapes of minors were recorded in the municipality. Among the…

The Senegalese government announced the suspension of all extraditions to France, a measure unveiled on Thursday, 11 December 2025 by Minister of Justice Yacine Fall at the National Assembly during the review of her ministry’s 2026 budget. According to the…

On the night of Tuesday, December 9 to Wednesday, December 10, 2025, a patrol from the Illara border police station, in the municipality of Kétou, seized seventy packages of Indian hemp following a nighttime chase. Around 1:00 a.m., officers spotted…

President Patrice Talon held an audience on Wednesday, December 10, 2025, with the delegation of Nigerian military personnel deployed to Benin following the December 7 coup attempt. This meeting at the Palais de la Marina expresses the Nation’s official gratitude…

In a statement on Wednesday, the party Les Démocrates addressed the events that shook Benin on Sunday, December 7, 2025, and urged the so-called “rupture” government to avoid any political exploitation of those events. In its message, the political formation…

In an interview with RFI, Colonel Dieudonné Djimon Tévoédjrè, commander of the Garde républicaine, gives a detailed account of the attack carried out on the night of Sunday, December 7, 2025, against President Patrice Talon’s residence in Cotonou. For the…

At the Council of Ministers on Wednesday, December 10, the government of President Patrice Talon took several measures, the report of which is presented as follows: I- NORMATIVE MEASURES. Under these measures, a decree approving the statutes of the School…

The Government of Rupture met on Wednesday, December 10, 2025, for an ordinary Council of Ministers. Several decisions were made during this governmental conclave. Below is a summary of the topics discussed. Key decisions of the Council of Ministers

A workshop dedicated to updating the compendium of procedures for oversight of government action has been taking place in Grand-Popo since Tuesday, December 9, 2025. For two days, the assistants of the Parliament’s standing committees are working to produce a…

Police Commissioner Landry Bignon Delcoz Kindjanhoundé, identified as the author of a damning video broadcast on Monday, December 8, 2025, was arrested on Tuesday, December 9. His arrest came less than twenty-four hours after the release of a recording in…

In Benin, in the aftermath of the failed coup d’état on Sunday, December 7, 2025, the Court for the Repression of Economic Offenses and Terrorism (Criet) issued international arrest warrants against Beninese activist Kemi Séba and Sabi Sira Korogoné.

The government provided new details about the foiled coup attempt on the night of December 6–7. At a press briefing held on Wednesday, Wilfried Léandre Houngbédji described how events unfolded and gave a preliminary assessment of the attack on the…

The High Authority for Audiovisual and Communication (HAAC) made public, on Tuesday, December 9, 2025, the list of private press bodies authorized to participate in the official media campaign for the legislative and municipal elections scheduled for January 11, 2026.…

The heads of the Republic’s institutions issued, on Tuesday 9 December 2025, a solemn declaration following the attempted coup foiled two days earlier in Cotonou. The document, signed by the President of the National Assembly, expresses a unanimous condemnation of…

The CRIET appeals chamber on Monday, December 8, 2025, issued a cassation ruling in the breach of trust case involving the former director general of the public agency AGETIP-Bénin, Raymond Adékambi. By this ruling, the appeals court found that it…

During the day dedicated to the memory of the victims of the 2021 to 2024 protests, Ousmane Sonko chose to deliver an unambiguous political message. The Prime Minister and leader of PASTEF told his supporters that no maneuver could prevent…

The city of Abomey-Calavi was shaken by an unexpected incident on Sunday. While national attention remained focused on the foiled attempt to seize power in Cotonou, inmates at the civil prison tried to take advantage of the unsettled atmosphere to…

The United Nations responded to the attempted takeover by force that occurred on Sunday in Benin. The international organization expressed its concern and welcomed the failure of this effort, which aimed to destabilize the institutions of the Republic. In a…

Former Beninese president Boni Yayi has finally reacted to the attempted overthrow of power that took place on Sunday, December 7, 2025, in Cotonou. A group of soldiers had tried to attack the president’s residence and the national television station…

In a solemn message addressed to the Nation, former Beninese minister Komi Koutché reacted to the attempted coup that took place on Sunday, December 7, 2025. He describes the event as an “unprecedented seriousness” in Benin’s recent history and strongly…

Former President of the Republic, Nicéphore Dieudonné Soglo, has reacted to the attempt to destabilize the institutions that took place in Benin. In a widely shared statement, he expresses his indignation at the action carried out by a group of…

The trade union confederations CSA-Bénin, CGTB and UNSTB reacted on Sunday, December 7, 2025, to the attempted coup carried out in the early morning by a group of uniformed men against President Patrice Talon. In a joint statement, the trade…

Benin went through a morning of high tension on Sunday, December 7, 2025, when a group of men in uniform briefly seized the national television station to announce the dissolution of institutions and political parties. This attempted takeover by force…

In a communiqué dated 7 December 2025, the Episcopal Conference of Benin (CEB) expressed its deep concern over the attempted coup d’état that took place this Sunday. It firmly condemns any use of force as well as any action likely…

The insurrection launched on Sunday, December 7, 2025, by a group of mutinous soldiers continues to provoke reactions within Benin’s political class. In a video statement released to the public, the former president of the National Assembly, Me Adrien Houngbédji,…

In the Council of Ministers on Wednesday, December 3, the Beninese government changed the name of Cotonou airport, now called “Aéroport Bernardin GANTIN”. Questioned on Friday, December 5, 2025, the government spokesperson, Wilfried Léandre Houngbédji, detailed the reasons for this…

A group of 150 Beninese nationals in an irregular situation in Algeria were repatriated to Cotonou on Tuesday, December 2, 2025. They landed at Cotonou airport on a charter flight arranged as part of a voluntary return operation carried out…

The draw procedure to allocate stalls at the PK3 modern market in Cotonou will take place on dates to be announced shortly, the competent authority said. This operation is part of bringing the new market into service, which is expected…

Nigerian air forces deployed a fighter to Benin to carry out aerial reconnaissance after a coup attempt was foiled Sunday morning in Benin, the Beninese government and the national armed forces announced. A coup attempt was foiled Sunday morning in…

President of the Republic Patrice Talon addressed the Beninese nation and the international community on Sunday evening, a few hours after a mutiny carried out by a group of soldiers. MESSAGE TO THE NATION PATRICE TALON Cotonou, December 7, 2025…