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Benin: Corrupt microfinance institutions profit from poorest

Categories: CorruptionArticle Author: ContributorIssue Number: 414

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Benin: Voodoo community remains impenetrable to HIV outreach

Categories: Health & HIV/AIDSArticle Author: ContributorIssue Number: 414

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Beninese president meets Chinese assistant FM on ties

Categories: Emerging powers in Africa WatchArticle Author: ContributorIssue Number: 425

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Benin: Support for women facing violence

Categories: Women & genderArticle Author: ContributorIssue Number: 426

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Benin: Where mobile users carry 3, 4, even 5 SIM cards to make a call

Categories: Internet & technologyArticle Author: ContributorIssue Number: 435

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Benin: Humanitarian response as floods take toll

Categories: Conflict & emergenciesArticle Author: ContributorIssue Number: 441

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Benin: UN agencies increase assistance in wake of floods

Categories: Conflict & emergenciesArticle Author: ContributorIssue Number: 442

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Benin: Five opposition parties to field single candidate in 2011 polls

Categories: Elections & governanceArticle Author: ContributorIssue Number: 446

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Benin: Farmers unite against effects of climate change

Categories: EnvironmentArticle Author: ContributorIssue Number: 453

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Benin: Solar-powered irrigation a shining success

Categories: DevelopmentArticle Author: ContributorIssue Number: 464

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Benin: WHO stresses good hygiene to prevent cholera spread

Categories: Health & HIV/AIDSArticle Author: ContributorIssue Number: 469

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Benin: Insecticide beats DDT in early trials

Categories: Health & HIV/AIDSArticle Author: ContributorIssue Number: 470

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Benin: Four ex-ministers may be tried for corruption

Categories: CorruptionArticle Author: ContributorIssue Number: 492

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Benin: Russia elects first African

Categories: Racism & xenophobiaArticle Author: ContributorIssue Number: 500

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Benin: Water recedes, health concerns mount

Categories: Conflict & emergenciesArticle Author: ContributorIssue Number: 502

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Benin: Protesters win vote delay

Categories: Elections & governanceArticle Author: ContributorIssue Number: 520

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Bénin: Media regulatory body suspends nine newspapers for one week

Categories: Media & freedom of expressionArticle Author: ContributorIssue Number: 521

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Benin: Opposition file appeals over vote results

Categories: Elections & governanceArticle Author: ContributorIssue Number: 522

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Benin: Electoral reform, flood preparedness, challenges facing president

Categories: Elections & governanceArticle Author: ContributorIssue Number: 526

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Benin: Tanker seized

Categories: Conflict & emergenciesArticle Author: ContributorIssue Number: 542

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Benin: Campaign unveiled to keep children in school

Categories: EducationArticle Author: ContributorIssue Number: 550

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Africa: Crises dominate talks as Benin takes AU helm

Categories: African Union MonitorArticle Author: ContributorIssue Number: 567

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Benin plan of action

Sub-Title: Will this miserable project be the last word on the looted Benin artefacts?‘There was a dim grandeur about it all, and also these seemed to a fate. Here was this head center of iniqiuty,...

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Where are the 400 Benin bronzes?

'The restitution of those cultural objects which our museums and collections, directly or indirectly, possess thanks to the colonial system and are now being demanded, must also not be postponed with...

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The Afro-Brazilian legacy in the bight Benin

In 2011 while conducting research on the Yoruba legacy in Cuba, I became interested in the return movement of Afro-Cubans and Afro-Brazilians who were released and had to return to their native...

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Will other holders of Benin bronzes return them?

Sub-Title: An interview with Prince Edun Akenzua of BeninWe reproduce below an interview with Prince Edun Akenzua, younger brother of the Oba of Benin,published in the Nigerian Guardian. The brother of...

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The invasion of Benin Kingdom

INTRODUCTIONOn Saturday 7 February, a packed British Film Institute (BFI) audience attended African Odyssey’s hosting of 'Grand Theft Africa: History of the Benin Bronzes.' It opened with a one-hour...

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What are they really celebrating at the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris?

Gold jewel of two crocodiles, Baule, Ivory Coast, now in Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France. “France is both universalist and secular. We need to recognize that [museum collections] belong to the...

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European museums to ‘loan’ looted Benin bronzes to Nigeria?

‘We, Europeans, who have received and transmitted and continue to transmit these objects, are on the side of the conquerors. To a certain extent, this is also a ‘heritage that weighs us down’. But...

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MacGregor’s defence of Humboldt Forum: Post-Ouagadougou shadow-boxing

“There was a dim grandeur about it all, and also these seemed to a fate. Here was this head centre of iniquity, spared by us from its suitable end of burning for the sake of holding the new seat of...

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