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Nate Debos, known by his stage name NaTRILL Dizaster, who said he would apply for Benin citizenship, poses inside an old school bus in New Orleans, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) ...
News Benin » Trade: How Benin is turning its cotton wealth into an industrial economy
Benin is using its position as West Africa’s largest cotton producer to pursue a bigger economic prize: processing more of what it grows at home. At the Glo-Djigbé Industrial Zone (GDIZ), cotton is ...
News Benin » Trade: Niger-Benin border standoff deepens as trade collapse bites
Niger shut its border with Benin when the military seized power two years ago, hitting trade – Copyright AFP/File Sai Aung MAIN Nearly two years after Niger’s ...
News Benin » Trade: Benin Grants Citizenship To Descendants Of The Enslaved, Reckons With Role In Slave Trade
Benin is one of the few African countries that is invested in offering citizenship to descendants of the enslaved Benin’s President, Patrice Talon, passed a law in September 2024 that gives ...
News Benin » Trade: Benin Wants to Remember Slave Trade & Abolition Through JISTNA
On Wednesday, August 23, 2023, the Minister of Tourism, Culture, and Arts of Benin, Jean-Michel Abimbola, launched events in Ouidah at the House of Brazil. These events mark the celebration of the ...
News Benin » Trade: Benin grants citizenship to slave descendants as it faces its own role in the trade
DAKAR, Senegal — When Nadege Anelka first came to the West African country of Benin from her home island of Martinique, a French overseas territory in the Caribbean, the 57-year-old travel agent said ...
News Benin » Trade: Niger-Benin border standoff deepens as trade collapse bites
Nearly two years after Niger's military seized power and the border with Benin was shut, tensions over security, sovereignty and French influence have hardened into a stand-off throttling trade and ...