By Michele Moscaritoli Nigeria’s slowdown is a reminder that regional growth figures can flatter to deceive – and that smart investors build structure, not just exposure....
By Mark-Anthony Johnson Can a West African nation plagued by poverty replicate Asia’s most audacious economic miracle? In the pantheon of ambitious national rebranding exercises, few...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The collapse of the G5 Sahel should serve as a wake-up call: African states cannot defeat violent extremism through fragmented, go-it-alone strategies....
AP | When Nadege Anelka first came to the West African country of Benin from her home island of Martinique, a French overseas territory in the...
By Mary Alorh The rising concerns over terrorism in Ghana have led me to reflect on my journey through West Africa, a region where I witnessed...
Bloomberg | Present-day Benin, from where more than a million people were shipped to the Americas at the height of the slave trade, has approved a...
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) continues its involvement in Haiti through the efforts of three former prime ministers appointed by CARICOM Heads of Government to support the...
AFP | Lilith Dorsey is an American citizen living in New Orleans, but it is in Benin that she could end her days to “feel closer...
Reuters | Niger’s junta has agreed to talks with Benin’s government, led by two former Benin presidents, to help restore relations after a coup in Niger...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Republic of Benin spearheaded Africa’s democratic wave, marking a pivotal shift towards civilian rule...
Benin is on the verge of enacting a historic law that will grant citizenship to people of African descent. This initiative is designed to strengthen ties...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The military government of Sudan continues to insist that the African Union (AU) removes sanctions it had imposed on it, and fully...
Reuters | In a world grappling with climate change and the search for sustainable energy solutions, Enock Gnaga hopes his company Benin Biogas’s complete waste-to-energy cycle...
AP | Rwanda announced Thursday that it will allow Africans to travel visa-free to the country, becoming the latest nation on the continent to announce such...
AP | The Pritzker Architecture Prize has been awarded to Diébédo Francis Kéré, a Berlin-based architect, educator and social activist, for a craft that is “sustainable...
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved a US$1.5 million grant to assess policy gaps in the digital trade and e-commerce...
Benin’s Prime Minister Lionel Zinsou walked away unharmed after the helicopter he was traveling in crash-landed in the north of the West African nation. It was...
Benin’s former president Mathieu Kerekou, nicknamed “the chameleon”, died on Wednesday. He was 82. “I announce with regret and deep sadness the death on Wednesday October...
Benin once had a powerful empire within West Africa. Like the Asante people, this was a militaristic empire that was highly disciplined and formed a mighty...
The African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) as met with its African member states, as part of its continental fundraising efforts. The consultations on the fringes of...
