Stuffing ballot boxes and barring strong opposition candidates from contesting, the regime in Benin – propped up by a foreign military intervention last December – staged an election to hand over the reins from the outgoing president to his chosen successor.

Following an initiative coordinated by Pan Africanism Today as part of a continent-wide mobilization in solidarity with the people of Cuba, various movements across Africa have visited Cuban embassies to deliver messages of support and solidarity.

More than a week after a military intervention restored the president to power after a rebellion in the Beninese military, foreign troops continue to prop up Patrice Talon as his regime unleashes a crackdown on domestic political opponents.

Testimonies reveal exploitative conditions at the cotton factories in the government-backed Glo-Djigbé Industrial Zone in Benin

The West African Peoples’ Organization said ECOWAS’ threat of military intervention was a maneuver by colonial France and Great Britain, under the hegemony of US imperialism. With Mali, Guinea, and Burkina Faso extending support to Niger’s new government, any use of force by ECOWAS may hurl the entire sub-region into war

Reports of armed thugs being on the prowl and even attacking protesters have come from many cities. The protests in Nigeria began on October 8 demanding the abolition of the infamous SARS police units