Although final details of a controversial constitutional reform are yet to be confirmed President Patrice Talon has maintained a hardline stance on controversial constitutional reforms and rebuffed an effort by his predecessor Thomas Boni Yayi to find compromise...
Most of the big opposition parties boycotted the political dialogue called by President Patrice Talon on 7 October to defuse the crisis triggered by his exclusion of some of the country's most prominent politicians from the parliamentary elections in April...
Vol 60 No 20 |
- BENIN
- NIGERIA
It also hits the finances of the Benin government and President Patrice Talon's own business empire; the president's personal interests are now central to the national economy...
President Patrice Talon continues to rebuff calls for a rerun of the 28 April parliamentary polls which were marked by a meagre 23% turnout after opposition parties were excluded (AC Vol 60 No 9 Talon turns back the clock)...
After almost three decades as an admired pioneer of democratic freedom in francophone Africa Benin has just conducted a parliamentary election from which all parties were excluded save for the two backed by President Patrice Talon...
The winner of the presidential election business tycoon Patrice Talon remains a cipher as the impact of his unexpected victory sinks in and the public wonders what changes he may bring...
The choice of food importing tycoon Sébastien Germain Ajavon as candidate of Emmanuel Goulou's Parti social démocrate (PSD) has upset two other big names businessman Patrice Talon and Fernand Amoussou...
So when Yayi accused a former friend wealthy businessman Patrice Talon of trying to assassinate him people sat up...