They carved masks for ceremonies and they moulded sculptures of gods out of mud. In Benin City, craft workers were organised into groups known as guilds. There were guilds for wood carvers ...

Benin was a large and varied kingdom. Some people lived in villages and small towns, but most people lived and worked in Benin City. The people of Benin sold goods to merchants from Europe and ...

He was leaving his small village in northern Benin to live with his uncle in Parakou, where the schools were better. Ever since, Louis has continued to make sacrifices to pursue a strong education ...

Cooperation between France and Benin is governed by the General Agreement of 1975 and specific agreements signed the same year. These agreements have a vast scope, ranging from cultural cooperation to ...

The office overseeing the Presidential Compressed Natural Gas Initiative (PCNGI) yesterday warned vehicle owners to stop patronising quacks, following the explosion of a CNG-powered car in Benin ...

German coach Gernot Rohr said his Cheetahs of Benin Republic are still much in the race to qualify for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) despite the 2-1 away ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In the past few years, Europe and the United States have been returning stolen bronzes from the historical Kingdom of Benin. While today's Benin Bronze casters ...

Many countries, however, are not prioritising electronic waste disposal. In Benin, there are no official organisations collecting and processing e-waste, as FRANCE 24’s team on the ground reports.

What we are watching is 26 of 7,000 artefacts looted from what is today Benin by 19th-century French troops and now being readied for return to Africa. (The repatriation came after Emmanuel Macron ...

Over the next few months, the governments of Niger and Benin took various escalatory measures (see Figure 2). The regional dispute peaked in January 2024, when the military juntas of Niger ...

Benin coach Gernot Rohr is pulling all the stops to ensure qualification to the 2025 AFCON and as a result he has named star defender Mohamed Tijani, who missed the Super Eagles clash in Uyo in ...

BENIN CITY – MOST streets in Benin City, Edo State capital were deserted on Tuesday as a group, the Coalition of Civil Society Organizations in Edo State demanded the restoration of fuel subsidy ...