Benin's President Patrice Talon summed up the bloc's climbdown: 'Let's swallow the medicine...

There was speculation that the party might even have secured an overall majority at the expense of the l'Union progressiste pour le renouveau (UPR) and Bloc républicain (BR) which support President Patrice Talon...

The country's constitutional system is starting to work again despite President Patrice Talon's authoritarian instincts...

Since 2019 the parliament has been dominated by supporters of President Patrice Talon and opposition candidates have been outlawed by a highly selective interpretation of electoral law...

THE TALON-KAGAME AXIS GOES MILITARY With his centralised Chief Executive Officer top-down rule and crackdown on dissidents President Patrice Talon has modelled some economic and political policies on those pursued by his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame...

President Patrice Talon of Benin who has singlehandedly dismantled his country's democratic freedoms is the most blatant example...

That stance has been maintained despite the erosion of civil liberties and return of grand corruption under President Patrice Talon...

Tried last week by the national corruption and terrorism court – in cases neutral observers regard as trumped up – these two emblematic opposition figures had sought to stand against the incumbent Patrice Talon in last April's presidential election...

Since then the governments of President Yayi Boni and more recently Patrice Talon have rolled back such gains...

Condé with the killing of protestors and the jailing of political opponents was among the starkest recent examples surpassed perhaps only by Benin's Patrice Talon – who redrew the rules to effectively prevent any serious opponents from even contesting legislative and presidential elections...