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BENIN: Counting underway after calm vote, but worries persist
IRIN - Monday, March 26, 2007
OTONOU Monday, March 06, 2006 (IRIN) - Counting was underway on Monday in Benin after a calm though at times chaotic presidential poll seen as critical to the future of the tiny West African ... more
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BENIN: Political newcomer in lead in first round of presidential poll
IRIN - Monday, March 26, 2007
OTONOU Tuesday, March 14, 2006 (IRIN) - Boni Yayi, a former banker making a maiden bid for political office, has won the first round of Beninâ??s presidential elections, according to provisional results released on ... more
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BENIN: Poultry farmers hit the road to encourage people to eat chicken
IRIN - Monday, March 26, 2007
OTONOU Wednesday, March 15, 2006 (IRIN) - Poultry farmers and vendors led a road show through the streets of Benin's main city Cotonou before dining with government ministers on chicken and eggs to persuade people that poultry products are safe despite the arrival of bird flu in the ... more
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BENIN: Presidential poll to go to second round - official
IRIN - Monday, March 26, 2007
OTONOU Thursday, March 16, 2006 (IRIN) - Political newcomer and former banker Boni Yayi, and veteran politician and lawyer Adrien Houngbedji are to face off in the race to become Beninâ??s next president in a second round run-off vote, the Constitutional Court said on ... more
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BENIN: Date of presidential run-off triggers new tiff
IRIN - Monday, March 26, 2007
OTONOU Friday, March 17, 2006 (IRIN) - The date for the final run-off round in Beninâ??s key presidential poll has triggered a new tiff in the problem-fraught ... more
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BENIN: Rejecting appeal, government sets poll for 19 March
IRIN - Monday, March 26, 2007
OTONOU Saturday, March 18, 2006 (IRIN) - Beninâ??s government late Friday rejected an appeal for more time to organise the second round in the countryâ??s key presidential election and ruled instead that voting take place Sunday 19 ... more
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BENIN: Counting underway in Beninâ??s hastily-organised poll
IRIN - Monday, March 26, 2007
OTONOU Monday, March 20, 2006 (IRIN) - Sundayâ??s election in Benin went off smoothly despite a rush to organise the second and decisive round in less than 48 hours, and counting was underway with results expected by Thursday, officials ... more
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BENIN: Political novice Boni Yayi set to become new president
IRIN - Monday, March 26, 2007
OTONOU Thursday, March 23, 2006 (IRIN) - Boni Yayi, a former banker in his maiden bid for political office, has won nearly 75 percent of the vote in the final round of Beninâ??s presidential election, according to provisional results from the National Electoral ... more
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BENIN: President-to-be pledges change â??with Godâ??s blessingâ?
IRIN - Monday, March 26, 2007
OTONOU Monday, April 03, 2006 (IRIN) - Boni Yayi, the former banker and political novice who will be sworn in as Beninâ??s new president this week following a landslide election victory, has promised sweeping change for the tiny West African nation â??with the blessing of ... more
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BENIN: President Mathieu Kerekou leaves after 29 years
IRIN - Monday, March 26, 2007
OTONOU Friday, April 07, 2006 (IRIN) - Bucking a regional trend towards constitutional revision and chaotic political successions, Beninâ??s long-serving ruler Mathieu Kerekou has observed the constitutional age limit and ceded the presidency to Boni Yayi, in a bow to ... more
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BENIN-TOGO: A year on, only a handful of refugees have returned
IRIN - Monday, March 26, 2007
GAME Wednesday, April 26, 2006 (IRIN) - A year after political trouble in Togo sent 25,000 people fleeing east into Benin, thousands of people remain crammed in tents and temporary shelters in this camp near the border, with few ready to go ... more
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BENIN: Protestors slam visiting French minister for immigration bill
IRIN - Monday, March 26, 2007
OTONOU Friday, May 19, 2006 (IRIN) - Over 1,000 protestors turned out in the rain on Friday to protest the presence in Benin of French Interior Minister Nicolas ... more
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BENIN: Toll rises to 54 in petrol tanker explosion
IRIN - Monday, March 26, 2007
OTONOU Friday, May 26, 2006 (IRIN) - Fifty-four people were killed and dozens injured when a petrol tanker in Benin caught fire and exploded as they were siphoning petrol, police and hospital sources ... more
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BENIN: Toll climbs to 75 in petrol tanker explosion, scores of children orphaned
IRIN - Monday, March 26, 2007
ANGUIETA Wednesday, May 31, 2006 (IRIN) - A total 75 people have died and 24 are still receiving treatment after a petrol tanker in Benin caught fire and exploded a week ago as a crowd of people were siphoning petrol, hospital director Boniface Sambieni told ... more
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BENIN: Prison inmates "like corpses in the drawers of a morgueâ??
IRIN - Monday, March 26, 2007
BOMEY Wednesday, July 05, 2006 (IRIN) - Maggots usually digest the bodies of the dead. In Beninâ??s cramped and decaying prison of Abomey they infest the flesh of the living. ... more
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BENIN: Motorbike taxis in drive to get girls into school
IRIN - Monday, March 26, 2007
OTONOU Monday, July 31, 2006 (IRIN) - As Beninese school-children begin their annual break, the countryâ??s iconic motorbike taxis, or â??Zemidjansâ?, are joining a national drive to get all girls into ... more
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BENIN: Refugees from Togo sensitised to AIDS
IRIN - Monday, March 26, 2007
OTONOU Monday, October 02, 2006 (IRIN) - Règle d'or, a local nongovernmental organisation (NGO) in Benin, is taking awareness messages to thousands of Togolese nationals who fled their country when the presidential elections erupted in violence last ... more
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Benin's parliamentary election postponed to next Saturday
Topix - Sunday, March 25, 2007
enin's constitutional court has decided to postpone Sunday's parliamentary elections by six days, according to news reports from Cotonou on Saturday. Comment ... more
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Weinig Ag staff makes donations to Sos Children's Villages
Topix - Saturday, March 24, 2007
ollowing a long tradition, the staff of the WEINIG AG this year made donations to support projects of the SOS Kinderdorfer e.V. Donations amounting to 4,000 Euro were collected this year supporting an SOS ... Comment ... more
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Electoral Disputes Continue Days Before Benin's Legislative Election
Topix - Thursday, March 22, 2007
ran report - Download 250k Listen to Tran report In Benin, disputes over ballots and voter registration lists have pushed preparations for Sunday's parliament election to the last minute. Comment ... more
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