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Porto Novo (Benin)

Type: City

Name: Porto Novo (Benin)

Country: Benin

Latitude: 6.48

Longitude: 2.63

population: 234,176

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

Peace Corps

Senegal: In West Africa, Peace Corps Raises Profile of Undernutrition

Source: Government of the United States of AmericaCountry: Benin, Gambia, Guinea, Senegal, Sierra Leone In parts of West Africa, the Peace Corps is expanding opportunities for its Volunteers to receive training in combating hunger and undernutrition. ... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Peace Corps, Nutrition, Senegal

First reported Apr 15 2013 - Updated Apr 16 2013 - 1 reports

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Ahmadinejad Awarded Benin's Highest Nat'l Medal

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was awarded the highest national medal of the African state of Benin by his Beninese counterpart Thomas Yayi Boni in a ceremony in the capital city of Porto-Novo.The Beninese president said the medal ... [Published Fars News Agency - Apr 15 2013]

Entities: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Non-Aligned Movement, Thomas Yayi Boni, Benin

First reported Jan 28 2013 - Updated Jan 28 2013 - 1 reports

Thomas Yayi Boni

TV Director Convicted for Criticizing President

By Ryan Aliman Impunity Watch Reporter, Africa PORTO-NOVO, Benin – Last Thursday, human rights groups and press organizations demanded the Benin government to release a TV director who was imprisoned for airing a program that criticized President Boni ... [Published Impunity Watch - Jan 28 2013]

Entities: Television Director, Benin, Porto Novo (Benin), Thomas Yayi Boni

First reported Dec 19 2012 - Updated Dec 19 2012 - 1 reports

Economic Community of W. African States

ECOWAS Moves to Improve Efficiency of Regional Youth Programme

Porto Novo - Benin Directors of youths affairs in ECOWAS Member States began a meeting on Monday, 17th December 2012 in Porto Novo, Republic of Benin to propose how to improve the efficiency of the youth capacity building programme of the Ouagadougou- ... [Published AllAfrica.com - Dec 19 2012]

Entities: Porto Novo (Benin), Economic Community of W. African States, Benin

First reported Dec 04 2012 - Updated Dec 04 2012 - 1 reports

Voodoo Practitioners Accused Of Robbing Graves In West Africa For Charms (VIDEO)

It's a grave situation in the West African country of Benin where more than 100 coffins have reportedly been desecrated in a cemetery near the capital city of Porto Novo, and dozens of bodies mutilated. The unburied bodies had been sliced open, decapitated ... [Published The Huffington Post | Full News Feed - Dec 04 2012]

Entities: Voodoo, Porto Novo (Benin), Benin

First reported Nov 30 2012 - Updated Nov 30 2012 - 1 reports

More than 100 graves robbed in Benin for skulls and organs for voodoo rituals

(A Voodoo religion follower attends an international celebration of Voodoo spirituality in Ouidah, Benin January 10, 2006. REUTERS/Noel Tadegnon) Tomb raiders have dug up more than 100 graves at a cemetery in Benin since Saturday for what authorities ... [Published FaithWorld - Nov 30 2012]

Entities: Voodoo, Benin, Ouidah (Benin), Porto Novo (Benin)

Quotes

"The NAM members should enhance the Movement's role in international relations through their close and extensive cooperation, and move to correct world relations (to push the world) towards progress, justice and brotherhood" Ahmadinejad said during the meeting with President Yayi Boni in Benin on Sunday night

Ahmadinejad Awarded Benin's Highest Nat'l Medal [Published Fars News Agency - Apr 15 2013]

...the values of such training as an important contribution to youth empowerment, to equip them to play a more effective role in nation building. "We need to do all we can to empower the youth and to involve them in the decision making process since the future not only belongs to them but also to ensure they matured to take their destiny in their own hands" Madame Lima, the Benin director of youth, said while opening the meeting at the Songhai Centre in the nation's administrative capital Porto Novo...

ECOWAS Moves to Improve Efficiency of Regional Youth Programme [Published AllAfrica.com - Dec 19 2012]

...This, according to the director is because "a wrong candidate selected for a training programme equals misplaced training and could in fact be a source of distraction for other trainees." Mr. Njoaguana assured that the centre will put inin place a monitoring/evaluation system to provide appropriate support measures for trained youths to...

ECOWAS Youths Challenged On Discipline, Professional Conduct [Published AllAfrica.com - Oct 19 2012]

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TV Director Convicted for Criticizing President [Published Impunity Watch - Jan 28 2013] By Ryan Aliman Impunity Watch Reporter, Africa PORTO-NOVO, Benin – Last Thursday, human rights groups and press organizations demanded the Benin government to release a TV director who was imprisoned for airing a program that criticized President Boni ...
Interview: Abdellah Karroum and the Benin Biennale [Published {AFRICA IS A COUNTRY} - Dec 04 2012] We tracked down Abdellah Karroum in Paris, and asked him some questions about the Biennale Regard Benin 2012, of which he is the artistic director (more on that in yesterday’s post ). Abdellah Karroum was born in 1970 in Morocco. He is the artistic ...
Africa and the Biennial: Regard Benin [Published {AFRICA IS A COUNTRY} - Dec 03 2012] Tobias Lange’s photographs installed in downtown Cotonou. In Africa “biennials are a difficult idea, conceptually as well as financially, to implement and sustain,” Sean O’Toole wrote recently in Frieze . The first Biennale in Lubumbashi in the ...
More than 100 graves robbed in Benin for skulls... [Published FaithWorld - Nov 30 2012] (A Voodoo religion follower attends an international celebration of Voodoo spirituality in Ouidah, Benin January 10, 2006. REUTERS/Noel Tadegnon) Tomb raiders have dug up more than 100 graves at a cemetery in Benin since Saturday for what authorities ...