Benin's military says that militants inflicted heavy losses on the country's armed forces during an attack this week on a fortified military post in the north. Col.

Benin’s new law adds two holidays for traditional religions. Celebrated January 9-10, some see it as recognition of ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — When Nadege Anelka first came to the West African country of Benin from her home island of Martinique, a French overseas territory in the Caribbean, the 57-year-old travel ...

In a groundbreaking move, Benin has taken significant steps to address its historical involvement in the transatlantic slave trade by offering citizenship to descendants of those enslaved.

They carved masks for ceremonies and they moulded sculptures of gods out of mud. In Benin City, craft workers were organised into groups known as guilds. There were guilds for wood carvers ...

A dispute between Nigerian leaders could jeopardise plans for the return of some of Africa's most famous artefacts, the Benin Bronzes, which were looted during the colonial era and are now mainly ...