Events in the year 2025 in Benin.

Incumbents

Events

Ongoing – Benin–Niger Crisis

  • 8 January – Twenty-eight soldiers are killed in a gun attack near the border with Burkina Faso and Niger.[1]
  • 30 January – A court in Cotonou convicts businessman Olivier Boko, his brother-in-law Rock Nieri, who is in hiding, and former sports minister Oswald Homeky of plotting a coup against President Patrice Talon and sentences them to 20 years' imprisonment and a fine of 60 billion CFA francs ($95 million).[2]

Holidays

Source:[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Beninese army suffers 'hard blow' in border attack". BBC. 10 January 2025. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
  2. ^ "Benin court jails two ex-allies of president for 20 years". France 24. 31 January 2025. Retrieved 31 January 2025.
  3. ^ "Benin Public Holidays 2025". Public Holidays Global. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
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