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Benin

Population: 8.7 million
GNI: $4700 million
Debt: $1800 million
Overview: Buoyed by victory in last year's legislative elections, President Yayi Boni's team of technocrats will push ahead with macroeconomic reform and privatisation.

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  • Vol 47 No 7
  • 31/03/2006

Twilight of the chameleon

A clear and fairly clean win for Yayi Boni ends the Kérékou era

  • Vol 43 No 24
  • 06/12/2002

The old order please

Local elections may show how the land lies as parties prepare for the post-Kérékou era

  • Vol 43 No 2
  • 25/01/2002

Bio's bio

Benin's Finance Minister, Abdoulaye Bio Tchane, will take over as the International Monetary Fund's Africa Department chief next month. He was once tipped as a potential prime minister but his career at the western Franc Zone's central bank in Senegal lef...

  • Vol 42 No 6
  • 23/03/2001

Whose masquerade?

The presidential election has turned to farce since two leading candidates pulled out of the second round of voting claiming fraud. President Mathieu Kérékou emerged from the first round on 4 March with 47.1 per cent of the vote against 28.9...

  • Vol 41 No 13
  • 23/06/2000

Kérékou, no coup

Despite economic woe, the Beninese may give President Kérékou yet another chance

  • Vol 41 No 4
  • 18/02/2000

Watching and waiting

President Mathieu Kérékou has kept his head down amid celebrations of his overthrow ten years ago. His friends say he developed humility when he became a Catholic while out of office. Yet he seems to like running Benin: having won back the presidency in t...

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