This was the backdrop to April's legislative elections with Talon hopeful of sweeping away the previous parliament in which long-time opponents such as the redoubtable wife of former President Soglo Rosine Vieyra Soglo have been standing up to the government...
Soglo received a very public rebuke from the grand old man of Beninese politics his father former President Nicéphore Soglo and his mother Rosine Vieyra Soglo a member of parliament and founder of the RB...
His Forces cauris pour un Bénin émergent now holds 35 of the 83 Assembly seats Hounbédji’s Parti du renouveau démocratique has 10 and the Alliance pour une dynamique démocratique – led by Rosine Vieyra Soglo wife of Kérékou’s predecessor President Nicéphore Soglo – holds 20...
Yet Soglo's eccentric and domineering wife Rosine Vieyra Soglo was much in evidence and his son Lehady Soglo stood for the presidency and got 7 per cent of the vote...
Soglo's Renouveau du Bénin (Renewal of Benin RB) is led by his wife Rosine Vieyra Soglo whose authoritarian style has caused controversy in the past...
His supporters - most numerous in Cotonou and in the central region of Zou around Abomey the traditional seat of the Dan Ahomey royal line - lament his apparent arrogance and the unpopularity of his wife Rosine Soglo the strident parliamentary leader of his Renaissance du Bénin...
Rosine Vieyra Soglo who is also famous for her flamboyant hats focuses her denunciations on her husband' s authoritarian forerunner Kérékou...
