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Benin starts feeling the cost of rice pests
[COTONOU, BENIN] Insect pests that attack stored rice are causing financial losses to farmers in Benin, researchers report in the first such study of the crop in the country. But they also found significant regional differences in damage.(5/15/2013 9:02:44 AM) |
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Academic Chair Dedicated to Cardinal Bernadin Gantin of Benin
At a press conference held in the Holy See Press Office, a new academic chair was announced by the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome, dedicated to Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, a native of Benin and the first African-born prelate of a Vatican dicastery.(5/23/2013 12:47:21 PM) |
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Benin: Farmers Feeling the Cost of Rice Pests
[SciDev.Net]Cotonou -Insect pests that attack stored rice are causing financial losses to farmers in Benin, researchers report in the first such study of the crop in the country. But they also found significant regional differences in damage.(5/15/2013 9:48:56 AM) |
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Court jails man three years for stealing N52,100
An Oredo Magistrate’s Court, Benin, Edo State, has sentenced a 42-year-old man, Aigbedo Edebiri, to three years imprisonment for stealing N52,100, belonging to one Mrs. Eunice Obahudu. Edebiri was charged for three counts of conspiracy to commit felony, unlawfully causing grievous harm and stealing. The accused was alleged to have broken one of Obahudu’s teeth.... [Read More...](5/21/2013 7:59:11 PM) |
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Wife, daughter of Nigerian Supreme Court justice kidnapped
BENIN, Nigeria, May 12 (UPI) -- The wife and daughter of Nigerian Supreme Court Justice Bode Rhodes Vivour were abducted along with their driver, police said.(5/12/2013 9:32:40 AM) |
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AUDIO: Back to Benin: Brazil's slave and voodoo ties
The journey of an Afro-Brazilian priest to Benin and the cultural links he discovered.(5/15/2013 2:30:59 PM) |
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Nigeria: The Forgotten Empire - the Walls of Benin
[ThinkAfricaPress]Collectors may be interested in artefacts from the era, but the legacy of the Walls of Benin has largely been forgotten.(4/30/2013 9:20:18 AM) |
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Benin: Conservation Efforts Help Lift People Out of Poverty
[World Bank]Bamezoun -In Bamezoun, a sacred forest located in the commune of Aguégués, a region irrigated by the Ouémé river in the south-east of the country, the villagers did not realize that wood cutting, poaching, and overfishing, activities they had hitherto depended on to meet their needs, had been exerting considerable pressure on natural resources.(5/10/2013 10:33:14 AM) |
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Mali's coup leader rejects Benin asylum offer: aides
Aides of Mali's former junta chief Captain Amadou Sanogo rejected an offer of asylum made on Friday by the west African nation of Benin.(5/17/2013 4:28:01 PM) |
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Kumasi to host Ghana-Benin return leg
The Baba Yara Stadium will host the return leg of the Championship of African Nations (CHAN) qualifier between Ghana and Benin on July 7. The local Black Stars would have early on met their West African counterparts in Cotonou in a first leg tie on June 22.(5/15/2013 6:06:48 AM) |
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