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	Press Releases \| Media \| Peace Corps
		President Yayi was introduced by Africa Regional Director Henry McKoy and Deputy Director Jody Olsen.
		Benin, formerly known as Dahomey, is located in western Africa, and currently hosts 107 Volunteers.
		Peace Corps Volunteers in Benin are working in four of the government’s development priorities: improved quality of life for the rural population, expended educational opportunities for the masses, increased food production, and reforestation.
	www.peacecorps.gov /index.cfm?shell=resources.media.press.view&news_id=1171 (410 words)

	People's Daily Online -- Chinese president pledges to enhance cooperation with Benin
		President Hu Jintao said in Beijing Monday that China was ready to enhance exchanges and cooperation with Benin to improve bilateral friendship.
		Hu said China would work with Benin to safeguard the legitimate interests of developing countries in such issues as development and poverty reduction, reform of the United Nations and setting rules for multilateral trade.
		Yayi said Benin regarded China as an important cooperative partner, and would increase cooperation in fields such as agriculture, transport, infrastructure construction, resources, energy, education and personnel training, and enhance coordination in international affairs.
	english.people.com.cn /200608/29/eng20060829_297608.html (0 words)

	President Bush Meets with President Yayi of Benin
		The President and I are about to go to a summit where the United States of America will commit resources, time, and talent to help rid much of Africa of malaria.
		President, I'm proud to announce today that you're one of the countries that we'll be concentrating our help upon.
		President Bush for all the initiatives that have been taken so far to eradicate poverty on the continent.
	www.whitehouse.gov /news/releases/2006/12/20061214-4.html (690 words)

	African Muslim News > Muslim World News > Al-Akhbaar / African Headlines
		His investiture was attended by presidents Blaise Campoare of Burkina Faso, Laurent Gbagbo of Ivory Coast, Faure Gnassingbe of Togo, John Kufuor of Ghana Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria and Mamadou Tandja of Niger.
		Boni was presented to onlookers by the president of Benin's constitutional court, Conceptia Ouinsou, and signed his letter of appointment at an open-air ceremony in Benin's capital Porto Novo.
		Benin's four million voters are expected to learn on Thursday which of 26 presidential candidates they have chosen to replace their outgoing leader, President Mathieu Kerekou.
	www.esinislam.com /West_Africa_Daily/Gunmen_fire_at_Benin_president_Yayi_Boni.htm (1475 words)

	Map Zones : Benin Map (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Benin is a member of the Economic Community of West African States, an organization designed to promote economic cooperation and development.
		Benin, officially Republic of Benin, republic in western Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea.
		Known in full as the Republic of Benin, it is bordered on the north by Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) and Niger, on the east by Nigeria, on the west by Togo, and on the south by the Gulf of Guinea.
	kids.mapzones.com /world/benin (1924 words)

	Benin: Democratic Succession
		The Benin government website is at http://www.gouv.bj, the website of the incoming president is at http://www.yayiboni.com, and there are background articles and a transcript of the segment on Benin from the film Hopes on the Horizon, at http://www.pbs.org/hopes/benin.
		During his campaign for the presidency he pledged that if elected, one of the top priorities of his five-year mandate would be to end corruption and economic crime and reinstate ethical values and respect for the state.
		Thus, the central enigma of the 1996 Benin election was the defeat of the incumbent president whose achievements made him one of the most respected African technocrats of his generation.
	www.africafocus.org /docs06/ben0604.php (2825 words)

	afrol News - Benin President hospitalised in Paris
		Asked whether the Beninese President was in the Parisian American Hospital and whether "he left his country unconscious," the French spokesman however declined to answer.
		Unnamed witnesses at the President's office claimed they had observed the Beninese Head of State being "unconscious at his departure from Cotonou," AFP yesterday reported from the capital.
		President Kérékou has headed Benin for most of the time since a military coup in 1972.
	www.afrol.com /articles/14647 (478 words)

	Nigeria is an inspiration to benin republic
		Last Saturday, the National Stadium of the Republic of Benin in Coutonou was filled to the brim when Dr. Richard Mahougnon Senou, the 57-year old father of three and World Bank senior financial analyst, made a grand entry into the Benin's presidential race.
		Benin is one of the countries with the most expensive cost of telephone.
		This is my vision for economic development in Benin and that's what I want you guys to convey to the Nigerian community that the new governance in Benin is going to strenghen their relationship with Nigeria as it has never been before.
	www.celestialchurch.com /news/newsroom/news2006/nigeriaisaninspriationtobenin.htm (2148 words)

	Letter from the President of the Republic to the President of Benin - Website of the Office of the French President
		Letter from the President of the Republic to the President of Benin
		Its debates were to spawn the democratic regime which has allowed Benin often to be cited as an example of the model of successful democratization on the continent.
		Your name, President Kerekou, will remain in people's memories, alongside those of the forgers of your continent's history, as that of an ardent defender of the humanist values which we share particularly within La Francophonie [international Francophone organization].
	www.elysee.fr /elysee/elysee.fr/anglais/speeches_and_documents/2006/letter_from_the_president_of_the_republic_to_the_president_of_benin.46156.html (320 words)

	SIM Country Profile: Benin
		It extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the Niger River, and is bordered by Togo, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, and the Bay of Benin.
		Benin is the least evangelized non-Muslim country in Africa south of the Sahara.
		Benin's economy is based on subsistence agriculture, which involves about 80% of the population.
	www.sim.org /country.asp?cid=12&fun=2 (0 words)

	President questions Benin vote process - The Boston Globe
		COTONOU, Benin -- Benin's outgoing president alleged a lack of transparency in elections held yesterday to determine who will succeed him after nearly three decades as head of this tiny West African nation.
		President Mathieu Kerekou said he was surprised at the alleged disappearance of 1.3 million of the country's 5.3 million printed voter cards.
		Among the front-runners were Adrien Houngbedji, a former prime minister; Bruno Amoussou, a former national assembly president; Yayi Boni, former head of the West African Development Bank; and Soglo's son, Lehadi.
	www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2006/03/06/president_questions_benin_vote_process?mode=PF (0 words)

	Al Jazeera English - News - Benin President Wins Election
		A coalition led by Thomas Boni Yayi, Benin's president, has won control of parliament, according to election results announced by the country's constitutional court.
		The president's Cowrie Forces for an Emerging Benin (FCBE) won 35 of the 83 seats in parliament in the March 31 polls and will aim to control the assembly with its smaller allies.
		Conceptia Ouinsou, the constitutional court's president, said the authorities had uncovered several irregularities, including attempts to stuff ballot boxes, underage voting and pressuring of voters.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/C48AB333-ED28-4606-853A-EFDF8F995846.htm (367 words)

	Benin: Government Human Rights Commissions in Africa - Assessment
		The Benin example serves to pose the question whether the existence of a human rights commission necessarily helps to bring improved human rights protection in a country.
		Generally, Benin's human rights situation has undergone significant improvements in the past decade, but without the CBDH appearing to make much of a contribution to this or taking an active role.
		The court is presided over by renowned jurist Elizabeth Pognon, and one of its members, Maurice Glélé Ahanhanzo, is the president of the NGO Institute for Human Rights and the Promotion of Democracy as well as the U.N. Special Rapporteur against Racism to the U. Commission on Human Rights.
	www.hrw.org /reports/2001/africa/benin/benin5.html (1370 words)

	CNN.com - World - Election Watch
		The president is directly elected by popular vote for a five-year term.
		The second round election was postponed from March 18, 2001 until March 22, 2001 as a result of the Nicephore SOGLO's last minute withdrawal from the race.
		Citizens of Benin living abroad were eligible to vote in these election.
	edition.cnn.com /WORLD/election.watch/africa/benin2.html (214 words)

	Benin: justice on the horizon.
		Mathieu Kérékou, democratically elected president of Benin in 1996.
		Benin is held up as an example in sub-Saharan Africa, where “the wind of democracy” that blew in the early 1990s is otherwise dying down.
		Benin is ahead of the pack, says Maurice Glele Ahanhanzo, a member of the country’s constitutional court, because legal principles are now so deeply rooted in the population that “they have become the main instrument for regulating life in society”.
	www.unesco.org /courier/1999_11/uk/dossier/txt22.htm (1349 words)

	BeninInfo.com - Bénin Actualité, opportunité et promotion (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The President and I are about to go to a summit where the United States of America will commit resources, time, and talent to help rid much of Africa of malaria.
		President, I'm proud to announce today that you're one of the countries that we'll be concentrating our help upon.
		Africa is aware of her responsibility in the roles she has to play, globally speaking, because we have to reach prosperity, and that prosperity has some conditions.
	www.benininfo.com /151201.htm (680 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICA \| 'Flawed' Benin election limps on
		President Mathieu Kerekou faces one of his own ministers in after two well-supported candidates from the first round declined to stand again, saying they did not want to legitimise elections they believed to be heavily flawed.
		Nine members of the national electoral commission, Benin's constitutional court, have resigned after the body was fiercely criticised for giving out false results.
		Benin's press has given a highly negative account of what now appears to be something of a national embarrassment.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/1235107.stm (324 words)

	USAID Benin : Speeches
		World Health Organization publications indicate that Benin, as is the case with nine other countries in the world, is one of the countries where the poliovirus has reappeared.
		This means that Benin is not among the endemic countries.
		The presence of His Excellency the President of the Republic illustrates the determination of high level leaders in Benin to make the issue of polio eradication a priority in the health sector.
	www.usaid.gov /bj/speeches.html (538 words)

	President of Benin - List of Items - MSN Encarta
		President of Benin - List of Items - MSN Encarta
		, born in 1934, president of Benin (1991-1996).
		Born in Togo, Soglo received degrees in public and private law and in economics from...
	encarta.msn.com /refedlist_210110709_1/former_president.html (33 words)

	Rotary and District News
		Although no indigenous form of the poliovirus circulates in Benin, the country is still at risk of imported cases, especially from neighboring polio-endemic Nigeria, which is currently the world's leading reservoir of the disease.
		In 2003, Benin was one of eight West African countries that were re-infected during a polio outbreak in Nigeria.
		As a result, Benin is a regular participant in synchronized NIDs aimed at ensuring that no new cases of the disease are transmitted across the region.
	www.rotarynairobi.org /news_detail.asp?newsid=206 (392 words)

	POLITICS-BENIN: A President Tempted to Outstay His Welcome?
		That the president is not eager to relinquish his post was further indicated in 2004, when his supporters made a failed attempt to change the constitution, to allow him to stand for a third term.
		In addition to limiting the president to two terms in office, the 1990 constitution stipulates that presidential candidates cannot be more than 70 years old.
		If a new president is not elected in March, says political observer and academic Roger Gbégnonvi, then Kérékou is constitutionally obliged to hand over power to the head of the national assembly -- Kolawolé Idji -- who will then be in charge of organising a poll.
	www.ipsnews.net /news.asp?idnews=31747 (897 words)

	afrika.no - Benin: New president today (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Benin is considered one of the most democratic countries in West Africa but the electoral process has been criticised this time round.
		His chances of being elected to succeed long-serving President, Mathieu Kerekou, received a major boost on Friday, when three runners-up from the first round, who between them secured nearly 30 percent of the votes, told their supporters to back Boni.
		President Kerekou claimed the first round of the elections was not free and fair and then insisted the second round take place on Sunday.
	www.afrika.no /Detailed/11656.html (563 words)

	President Thabo Mbeki Congratulates Newly-Elected President of Benin, Mr Yayi Thomas Boni
		President Thabo Mbeki Congratulates Newly-Elected President of Benin, Mr Yayi Thomas Boni
		Tshwane: President Thabo Mbeki, today, 19 April 2006, extended on behalf of the Government and people of South Africa, fraternal greetings to his Beninese counterpart, Mr Yayi Boni, upon his recent victory in the Presidential elections held in Benin in March this year.
		In his message of congratulations to President Boni, President Mbeki conveyed warm greetings and sincere congratulations and expressed the hope of pursuing a closer working relationship between the Governments and peoples of South Africa and Benin.
	www.dfa.gov.za /docs/2006/beni0420.htm (183 words)

	CBS News \| Benin Chooses President From 26 Hopefuls
		Two women also were running: Marie Elise Gbedo, a lawyer who tried for the presidency in 2001, and Celestine Zanou, a former top aide to Kerekou.
		Only 40 percent of Benin's adults are literate and only about half of school-aged children are enrolled in school.
		About 4 million of Benin's nearly 7 million people were registered to vote.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/03/05/ap/world/printableD8G5H3380.shtml (558 words)

	globalinfo.org - Mar 27, BENIN (#42864)
		COTONOU, Mar. 27, 2006 (IPS/GIN) -- Benin is preparing to swear in a new leader after a former head of the West African Development Bank won the second round of presidential elections held earlier this month in the West African country.
		Without waiting for Benin's constitutional court to confirm the results, Houngbedji appeared on television moments after the provisional outcome was announced, saying he had already called the 54-year-old Yayi to congratulate him and express his "sincerest hopes for (Yayi's) success as president of Benin."
		The new president is not going to be able to straighten out a country whose economy has been moribund for several years all by himself," Issa Mondi-Mondi, an analyst based in the Beninese financial capital, Cotonou, told IPS.
	www.globalinfo.org /eng/reader.asp?ArticleId=42864 (586 words)

	PBS - HOPES \| Benin \| Transcript
		In January of 1989, Benin’s university students and professors launched a massive strike against their government.
		By 1989 Benin’s citizens had no say in how their country was governed and no control over its economy, which was on the verge of collapse.
		President Kerekou agreed to meet with strike leaders, including Professor Robert Dossou, one of the few politicians who did not belong to Kerekou’s Party.
	www.pbs.org /hopes/benin/transcript.html (1456 words)

	Mercury: World Bank president praises Benin
		Kerekou, who ruled Benin for all but five of the past 33 years, stood down after two terms in line with constitutional limits introduced in the 1990s.
		Benin has been a leading critic of rich countries' tariffs and subsidies, such as Washington's payments to US cotton farmers, which it says distort world prices and keep millions of West Africans who depend on growing cotton poor.
		He said the World Bank was ready to help Benin, but the country would need to take responsibility for itself for aid to be effective.
	www.themercury.co.za /index.php?fArticleId=3346935 (466 words)

	Benin's President Marks First 100 Days (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Benin's people hope the political newcomer will bring change, but some feel his lack of experience is hampering his efforts.
		When he was elected in March, President Yayi Boni was welcomed as a political newcomer, who would not get involved in the corruption many say marked the rule of his predecessor, President Mathieu Kerekou.
		Boni is the third elected president in Benin since the country was opened to multiparty democracy in 1990.
	www.voanews.com /english/2006-07-14-voa45.cfm (374 words)

	Welcome to the Republic of Ghana (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Beninois President, accompanied by his wife and a 26-member delegation, who arrived in Accra yesterday afternoon was responding to a toast at a State dinner organised in his honour at the Accra International Conference Centre.
		President Kufuor expressed the hope that Dr Boni would live up to the expectation of his people.
		Benin set the pace for democratisation of West Africa after many upheavals.
	www.ghana.gov.gh /news/article.php?id=0000015794 (320 words)

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