A bill has been introduced to allow many Afro-descendants worldwide to acquire Beninese citizenship; beneficiaries would not have the right to vote or work in the public sector

French-Beninese citizen Kemi Seba, a well-known pan-Africanist activist in both France and West Africa, has been stripped of his French citizenship for his strongly anti-Western analyses cloaked in pan-Africanism

The president of the Armwrestling Federation of Africa will travel to Benin where he will have a meeting with the Minister of Sport and the President of the Olympic Committee to strengthen ties in the West African region

The intensified preparations for the second edition of the African Research and Innovation Forum 2025 has been praised by the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research

Relations with Niger have deteriorated further and Niger has stopped exporting oil to China via its pipeline on the Benin coast