Elections take place weeks after foiled coup attempt that shook the country.
Soldiers in Benin appeared on state television to say they had toppled President Patrice Talon and taken power.
President Talon says situation under control after soldiers went on state TV saying he had been removed from power.
In Benin and across West Africa, riders viewed with suspicion as motorcycles now synonymous with armed fighters.
Her name at birth was Abake – meaning ‘born to be loved by all’ among the Tarkar people of Western Africa.
While the right to safe abortion has been restricted in the US, elsewhere, governments are liberalising abortion laws.
Washington is now seeking a Plan B after troops were ejected from sprawling, expensive bases in Niger.
A documentary by Franco-Senegalese director Mati Diop probing Europe’s looted antiquities wins prestigious Golden Bear.
With women killed at alarming rates in Kenya, is the government doing enough to end gender-based violence?
At least 35 people, including a child, killed after a blaze at an illegal fuel depot along Benin’s border with Nigeria.
