Benin continues to slide toward autocracy Tyson Roberts © Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty Images Police officers walk out of the premises of the Autonomous National Electoral Commission as vote-counting begins in Cotonou, Benin, on April 12. (Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty Images) Benin’s April 11 elections have many analysts increasingly concerned that the country is following a recent pattern of democratic decline in Africa. In 1991, Benin was the first former dictatorship to hold multiparty elections in Africa’s post-Cold War wave of democratization. According to one measure of democracy the “two-turnover test” Benin consolidated its democracy in 1996, when a second incumbent president lost reelection.
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Africa seeks funding from Europe to invest in ecological transition
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Africa is the continent that contributes least to climate change, yet it is impacted more harshly than others and lacks support to innovate, says the Portuguese presidency of the EU Council, which organised an EU-Africa Green Talk in Paris on Tuesday (13 April).
The forum, held in partnership with the Portuguese embassy in France, saw economists, diplomats and companies exchange views about the importance of the energy transition on the African continent.
“We need an ecological transition that matches our needs, but we don’t have the means available to invest. We are waiting to be able to mobilise resources internationally so that there are sustainable interest rates for our transition,” said Lionel Zinsou, economist and former Prime Minister of Benin.