Borneo Bulletin Online
March 1, 2018
He accuses the state – at the time, Benin's president was Mathieu Kerekou – of starving him of supplies of raw cotton. Crippled with debt, the factory was sold at an auction in November last year at a knockdown price for three billion CFA francs, and is now being run by Sodeco, says Rodriguez, who hasÃâà...
BBC News
October 15, 2015
Benin's former President Mathieu Kerekou, the man hailed as helping to usher in multi-party democracy in Africa, has died at the age of 82. Mr Kerekou had two spells as president totalling nearly 30 years, first coming to power as the head of a Marxist regime in 1972. But he then accepted the idea ofÃâà...
