Thomas Boni Yayi

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...

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)...

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...

Since then the governments of President Yayi Boni and more recently Patrice Talon have rolled back such gains...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

The now exiled Thomas Boni Yayi a former President and rival to Talon is well connected in Abuja...

Calm has returned to the streets of Cotonou after days of post-election protests including the shooting dead by security forces of at least seven demonstrators gathered outside the home of former President Thomas Boni Yayi in the Cadjéhoun district on 1-2 May...