Politics

Benin’s main opposition parties are in crisis just days before the country’s presidential election scheduled for April 12, with their candidates sidelined and no clear replacement strategy emerging — raising serious questions about the fairness and legitimacy of the vote in one of West Africa’s most closely watched democracies. The political turmoil comes as President […]

With just days to go before Benin’s presidential election on April 12, the country’s main opposition parties are engulfed in a deep political crisis that threatens to further consolidate an already weakened democratic space in the West African nation. The crisis centres on the electoral commission’s decision to exclude the primary opposition candidate from standing