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BENIN: Social measures related to the Coronavirus pandemic: Nearly 74.12 billion expected

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As part of the implementation of the social measures related to the coronavirus pandemic, the Government of Benin, meeting in Council of Ministers on Wednesday, 10 June, has just confirmed the implementation of a support programme of 74,FCFA 12 billion, in favour of formal enterprises, artisans and small informal service trades, and vulnerable people such as the poor and extreme poor.

The measures contained in the programme are divided into three main areas:

1- support of FCFA 63.38 billion for enterprises.

This allocation is intended to cover, as the case may be, 70% of the gross salary of employees declared over a period of three months, to reimburse VAT credits, exemption from the payment of motor vehicle tax for those who have not yet paid it in respect of 2020 or its conversion into a tax credit, in respect of 2021, for those who have already paid it, the payment of commercial rents over three months for the benefit of declared travel agencies.

It is also intended to take full charge of electricity bills for 3 months for hotels and travel agencies to the tune of FCFA 4.1 billion.

This item also includes a bonus fund of FCFA 30 billion to support a financing line of FCFA 100 billion at zero rate for the benefit of targeted economic actors via banking institutions and decentralised financial systems (SFD). Credits that will be granted via zero percent (0%) interest rate banks will be repayable over a period of up to three (3) years. Credits granted by DFS will be refundable up to one year.

2- support of FCFA 4.98 billion for craftsmen and those working in small trades.

It takes into account 55,000 people of these categories (activities such as hairdressing, sewing, welding, carpentry, small saleswomen, etc.) who have registered on the open digital platform for this purpose, as well as in town halls and social promotion centers.

3- a general subsidy, which applies to all citizens, on electricity and water tariffs amounting to FCFA 5.76 billion.

To all this will be added a special subsidy for the benefit of the poor and extreme poor as soon as the operation of their identification is completed.

In approving these measures, the Council instructed the Ministers concerned to ensure their immediate implementation.

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BENIN – 87-year-old Rosine Soglo, former First Lady and Dean of the National Political Scene

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Rosine Vieyra Soglo, former first lady of the Republic of Benin, died. The information was confirmed on Sunday 25 July by many local media, citing sources close to the family.

According to the first information available, Rosine Soglo died today at 11am, in a private clinic where she was hospitalized. Active for many years, she had not made a public statement for several months.

The former usher, wife of former president Nicéphore Dieudonné Soglo, held an important place in Beninese political life. Part of the generation that led Benin to democracy in the 1990s, she had been elected several times before retiring in 2019.

His outspokenness and his role as a pillar of his political family had earned him the nickname of an iron lady. For the time being no details have been provided concerning the future tributes to be paid to this true monument of the political scene of ancient Dahomey.

Source: Agence Ecofin / Par Moutiou Adjibi Nourou

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BENIN – Trial of opponent Joel Aïvo opens on Thursday 15 July

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The Beninese opponent, Joël Aïvo, faced the judge of the Court of Repression of Economic Offences and Terrorism (Criet). The trial opened this Thursday, July 15, 2021. In detention since 11 April, the day after the presidential election, the constitutional expert is being prosecuted for “undermining state security and money laundering.” Accusations that the opponent has always challenged despite his detention. The trial was postponed until August 5.

The trial of the opponent, Joël Aïvo, began on Thursday 15 July 2021. Arrested in the street the day after the presidential election in April, the professor, renowned in the African continent for his knowledge in the constitutional field, will be tried for “undermining the security of the State and money laundering”. He was presented to the judge with his co-accused: a retired soldier, a non-commissioned officer still serving, and the one who manages the finances of his political movement, Dynamique Aïvo. A group of Beninese and European lawyers has been hired to defend the opponent who totally denies the facts that are alleged against him.They are former President of the Bar Robert Dossou, Professor Barnabé Georges Gbago, French Christophe Bass and François Mazon, as well as their Belgian colleague Ludovic Hennebel. These black dresses, according to the information provided by Rfi, are allowed to consult their client’s file. 

Joel Aïvo appeared and his trial was dismissed. His lawyers have filed an application for parole, which will be reviewed by the Cree on August 5, 2021. Created in 2018, the legal institution is, for opponents of the regime of Patrice Talon, an instrument of liquidation of potential presidential candidates.

The former Dean of the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the National University of Benin (UNB) will be in prison on July 18, 2021, until his 48th birthday.

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[URGENT] – Patrice Talon publicly pledges not to run for a third term and to hand over power in May 2026 to his successor!

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This is probably the highlight of the second day of the West African Citizens’ Summit on Good Governance, Alternation and Democracy in Cotonou. As announced yesterday (Pan-African on the limitation of the number of presidential mandates.), the Head of State of Benin Patrice Talon honored his presence on the second day. And beyond a mere presence, the good surprise is that the President of Benin made a public commitment, this Saturday, July 10 in the blue room of the Cotonou Congress Palace, to hand over power in May 2026 at the end of his second mandate in 2026.

“(…) I measure the scope of the relay and before you how much I will commit myself, take you to witness to pass this relay, on the third Sunday of May 2026, to the one who will have the confidence of the Beninese people,” solemnly declared Patrice Talon, in his speech for the occasion. An announcement greeted with ovations fed by the assistance made up mostly of young people. Moreover, he wants to pass on this relay to his successor to perpetuate the tradition of alternation. “I would like to assure you that I will ask for a derogation from the State Protocol so that the symbol of alternation that you have just handed over to me becomes part of the elements of the charging ritual,” he said, adding: “I will take good care of it and pass it on to my successor and tell him to read the number 2 carefully.”
The relay of which the Beninese President speaks, is a sceptre symbolizing the alternation given to him by the Social Universities of Togo (UST), by the hands of their Coordinator, Prof David Dosseh. This witness is made of two materials, ebony and gold, produced by two craftsmen, a Togolese cabinetmaker and a Senegalese jeweller, and contains 20 grams of gold. The 2 symbolizes the maximum number of mandates defended by the civil society present in Cotonou.

Patrice Talon in fact responded favourably to a request from the latter asking him to be the embodiment of political alternation in the ECOWAS area, the central issue or the finality of this meeting of Cotonou, while refusing to be cited as an example or lecturer in the promotion of this ideal in West Africa.“Excellency, can your country produce a vaccine against this pandemic?” created by the “3rd mandate virus in Africa?” “Could you then accept this symbolic witness so that Cotonou becomes the mandate-limiting capital of Africa?” , these are the questions asked by Prof David Dosseh.

In other words, Patrice Talon undertakes publicly and solemnly to respect the Constitution of Benin, the limitation of the presidential mandate inscribed there in golden letters, not to run for a 3rd term and therefore to transmit the 3rd Sunday of May 2026 to his successor who will be elected. This commitment by the President of Benin to the youth of ECOWAS seals the total success of this citizen summit organized by the UST, the Centre for Research on the Rule of Law in Africa (CREA), the Tournons La Page Coalition (TLP) and other partners.

We’ll come back to that.

Source : Le Tabloid

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