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Benin

Patrice Guillaume Athanase Talon

Date of Birth: 1 May 1958
Place of Birth: Ouidah


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Talon to step aside

Finance minister Romuald Wadagni has been named joint presidential candidate of the governing l'Union progressiste pour le renouveau (UPR) and Bloc Républicain (BR) for April 2026 – confirming President Patrice Talon will honour the constitutional two-term limit...

The announcement follows Côte d'Ivoire's 83-year-old President Alassane Ouattara announcing his bid for a fourth successive term and brings relief to officials in the Economic Community of West African States seeking to restore faith in constitutional rule amid the populist pull of Sahel juntas (AC Vol 65 No 13 Patrice Talon tests strength of General Tiani's junta & Dispatches 8/9/25 Thiam faces election judgement day)...


General Tiani tightens grip as regional rumblings grow louder

Tiani has kept the Gaya/Malanville border crossing closed drives up the cost of imports (AC Vol 65 No 5 Ecowas buckles as it goes for regional unity Vol 65 No 13 Patrice Talon tests strength of General Tiani's junta & Vol 66 No 3 Economic hits before and after votes)...


Talon turns on his allies

The Cotonou political class is in shock following the detention of Olivier Boko a close associate of President Patrice Talon and former sports minister Oswald Homéky amid allegations of a coup plot...

An ambitious would-be presidential challenger: one Patrice Talon...


The juntas dig in as instability worsens

Ordinary Nigériens have been subjected to a doubling in the price of imported rice because of the junta's decision to keep the border with Benin closed because of its row with President Patrice Talon obliging traders to take the longer less secure route from Lomé in Togo and then through Burkina...


Talon flirts with a third term

Facing the challenges of succession or a high-risk bid for a third term President Patrice Talon has been buffeted by the junta-versus-civilian-regime rivalries playing out in West Africa...

TALON MULLS THE THIRD-TERM ROUTE President Patrice Talon seems in two minds over whether to bid for a third term in 2026 despite previously promising not to...


Clipping the President's talons

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...


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