‘Ireke,’ a full feature film by Macjob sets out to tell the local African story to a global audience while bridging the gap ...

For years, French cinema has ignored stories that dealt with France’s colonial history, but something is now changing.View on ...

The empire is gone now, but the symbol and the relevance are still ... the traditional head of the Oyo Imperial Army. One of Alaafin’s chiefs, Amoda Olorunosebi, the Ashipa of Oyo, had taken the ...

Boston will close its Benin Kingdom Gallery on 28 April, but most of the works it had been created to display will not be repatriated to their place of origin. Instead, all but five of the objects ...

The royal leader of the Kingdom of Benin sought the return of artifacts displayed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The ...

Benin’s government says an attack by Islamic militants on military posts in northern Benin last week left at least 54 soldiers dead ...

Benin's government said that 54 soldiers were killed in an attack in the country's north last week, providing a lower toll than reported by Al Qaeda affiliate JNIM.

Benin's army spokesman Ebenezer Honfoga could not be immediately reached by the news agency. The al-Qaeda affiliate and its rival, Islamic State, have since 2024 intensified their rivalry and ...

Government spokesman Wilfried Leandre Houngbedji gave the new toll to a press briefing on the April 17 attack in the W national park in northern Benin, close to the frontiers with Burkina Faso and ...

COTONOU, April 20 (Reuters) - Al Qaeda affiliate JNIM said it killed 70 soldiers in raids on two military posts in north Benin, the biggest death count claimed by jihadists in the country in over ...