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Benin

Thomas Boni Yayi

Date of Birth: 1 January 1952
Place of Birth: Tchaourou


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Talon turns on his allies

The sudden emergence of coup plot allegations supported by images of ‘evidence' reminds Beninois of the fantastical claims of a plot to poison him that President Thomas Boni Yayi made in 2012...


Talon flirts with a third term

He was the main campaign financier of his predecessor Thomas Boni Yayi...

But that lack of political savvy could leave him struggling in the face of a dynamic opposition campaign – just as Boni Yayi's chosen heir Lionel Zinsou the technocratic Prime Minister at the time suffered a heavy defeat at the hands of Talon back in 2016...


Oppositionists prise open parliamentary politics

It will benefit from the northern popularity of its honorary president former head of state Thomas Boni Yayi and the frustrations of urban poor and youth (AC Vol 60 No 10 A Talon for authoritarianism)...


Goïta plays to his nationalist gallery

Ecowas has appointed former Benin president Thomas Boni Yayi as its mediator for the country amid hopes that Doumbouya will agree on a two-year roadmap back to democracy...


Talons out for the opposition

Few voted in opposition-sympathetic northern centres such as Parakou and Tchaourou home town of Talon's predecessor Thomas Boni Yayi (AC Vol 60 No 20 Breaking the democratic line)...


Talon tightens his grip

With the backing of former head of state Thomas Boni Yayi and many defectors from his old Forces Cauris pour un Bénin Emergent (FCBE) party it lined up former minister Reckya Madougou as its presidential candidate with former parliamentarian Patrick Djivo as her running mate...

Boni Yayi's old FCBE is a husk of its former self having nominated Djimba as its candidate...


Talons on display

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...

It also proposes a ban on any individual serving more than two presidential terms – a measure seemingly specifically aimed at Boni Yayi who has served two terms and may have been contemplating a comeback...


Breaking the democratic line

The Union Sociale Libérale (USL) party of exiled tycoon Sébastien Ajavon was one of many not invited; former president Thomas Boni Yayi's Forces Cauris Pour un Bénin Emergent (FCBE) was split over whether to join...

He appointed former director of the IMF Africa department Abdoulaye Bio Tchané as planning minister and economic supremo to stabilise public finances undermined by his predecessor Boni Yayi...

He was a key financier of Boni Yayi's campaign until the two fell out...


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