Nigeria is facing a widening shortfall in electricity export revenue as neighbouring countries, Togo, Benin, and Niger, ...

AGENCIES | In the largest restitution of its kind, the Netherlands recently returned 119 Benin Bronzes to the Nigerian ...

On May 31, 2025, in Parakou, Benin, @oskinos.soka5 shared a video capturing a traditional cultural performance. In the video, ...

According to the report’s lead author, Mamadou Tanou Baldé, a World Bank economist, Benin’s fiscal and macroeconomic ...

The Edo Special Security Squad has arrested some suspected cult leaders and members in Evboutubu, Benin, as part of efforts to ensure a safe and peaceful environment for residents of the state.The ...

Benin's economy expanded by 7.5% in 2024, the country's highest growth rate since 1990, driven by activity in services and manufacturing. The World Bank has praised the macroeconomic progress but ...

Benin's agriculture-dependent economy has rebounded since the coronavirus pandemic, growing over 7% in 2021 and the first half of 2022. But the country of 12 million remains one of the poorest in ...

The British drove into exile—and would later capture—Benin’s oba, or king, a man of semi-deified status known to history by his regnal name, Oba Ovonramwen.

The first-ever Benin Pavilion at the Venice Biennale will be on display for eight months in Venice, Italy. Beninese artists Romuald Hazoumé, Chloé Quenum, Ishola Akpo, and Moufouli Bello touch ...

Germany returned 20 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria’s government in a ceremony in December. But Nigeria’s outgoing president has now bestowed ownership on a descendant of the ruler of the ancient ...

COTONOU, Benin — For centuries, his ancestors had ruled over a powerful kingdom in what is now Benin, but the first time Euloge Ahanhanzo Glèlè saw the throne of his great-great-great ...

Called “Everything Precious is Fragile,” Benin’s first pavilion at the Venice Biennale will explore the theme of African feminism and features four critically acclaimed contemporary artists ...