Benin, Africa

Health officials say air pollution in Benin’s economic capital, Cotonou, is an often-overlooked, undiagnosed killer that is as much of a health...

A tropical flesh-eating disease, Buruli ulcer, is spreading across West Africa and has infected at least 40,000 people leaving them with bloody...

If you live along the main highway linking Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire's economic hub, with Lagos in Nigeria, it is almost impossible to ignore the many...

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates 500,000 people are at risk of additional flooding in Benin. WHO says expected storms, the number of...

At least 50 cholera cases have been recorded in Benin’s capital Cotonou since 24 July, according to local hospital officials. These cases have been...

Prison conditions in Benin are so deplorable that they were, alongside police brutality, one of two reasons that compelled the international human...

In just four months the face of this child in northern Benin was eaten away by the disease known as Noma. And yet it could have easily been...

Primary and secondary school teachers in Benin who have been striking since 8 January warn they will not back down, even though their actions...

Experiments in new agricultural techniques by a Benin research centre could give a considerable boost to farmers living with HIV/AIDS. Comlan...

At least 50 villages in Benin have been destroyed by floods, an aid group there says. "Hundreds of homes, crops, granaries, livestock and...