December, 2022 Cotonou, Benin – This year’s theme for the World AIDS Day is “Putting Ourselves to the Test: Achieving Equity to End HIV.” It encourages people to unite globally to eliminate the disparities and inequities that create barriers to HIV testing, prevention, and access to HIV care. This theme highlights the efforts the US ...
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By U.S. Embassy Cotonou | 2 December, 2022 | Topics: News, Press Releases | Tags: Program, USAID
April 25, 2021 – The United States Government celebrates the progress made in the fight against malaria in Benin alongside the Ministry of Health and local and international partners at a ceremony to observe World Malaria Day in Avrankou, Ouémé. This past year, COVID-19 created an unprecedented global crisis. Yet malaria has long been a ...
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By U.S. Embassy Cotonou | 25 April, 2021 | Topics: News, Press Releases | Tags: Program
Villagers in two communities in northeast Benin will no longer need to cross the border to give birth or receive other basic medical care with the delivery of two new medical facilities in the remote villages of Money and Godjekoara, both of which sit in the larger border region of the Commune of Malanville. The ...
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By U.S. Embassy Cotonou | 8 April, 2021 | Topics: News | Tags: DOD, Inauguration, Program
COTONOU, 7 December 2020 – In anticipation of Human Rights Day, the United States Government is supporting the Benin Human Rights Commission (BHRC) to engage and educate youth in Benin on human rights and their responsibilities as Beninese citizens. Through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the United States is assisting the BHRC in ...
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By U.S. Embassy Cotonou | 7 December, 2020 | Topics: News, Press Releases | Tags: Human Rights, Program
On November 6, 2020, U.S. Chargé d’Affaires a.i. Karen Gustafson de Andrade attended a small ceremony at Cotonou International Airport to help welcome home members of the Beninese Armed Forces who had been deployed to the Lake Chad Basin as part of the Multinational Joint Task Force’s (MNJTF) peacekeeping operations. The troops were transported by ...
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By U.S. Embassy Cotonou | 18 November, 2020 | Topics: News | Tags: DOD, Program
COTONOU, October 16, 2020 – The United States Government is supporting 40 entrepreneurs in Benin to promote handwashing and affordable sanitation and hygiene products as part of its support to COVID-19 response. Through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the United States is working with the entrepreneurs to promote and sell their products to ...
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By U.S. Embassy Cotonou | 21 October, 2020 | Topics: News | Tags: Benin, Program
TIBOR P. NAGY, JR., ASSISTANT SECRETARY BUREAU OF AFRICAN AFFAIRS FEBRUARY 19, 2020 Ensuring a peaceful, stable, and democratic future for Africa’s people is incredibly important, given what is at stake. Within the next 30 years, the population of Africa is projected to double to over 2 billion people, 70 percent of whom will ...
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By U.S. Embassy Cotonou | 4 March, 2020 | Topics: News | Tags: Program, Youth
On September 11, members of the U.S.S.F received their certificates after six weeks of intensive training provided by the US Marines. Ambassador Patricia Mahoney and the Director General of the Republican Police Soumaïla Yaya both attended the ceremony. The program, made possible through the collaboration between the Government of Benin and the U.S. Embassy, strengthens border ...
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By U.S. Embassy Cotonou | 17 September, 2019 | Topics: News | Tags: Program
The U.S. Ambassador to Benin Patricia Mahoney inaugurated new facilities at the General High School of Kpakpa-Agbagoulè, in the city of Dassa-Zoumé, on June 20, 2019. This building, funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, is composed of two classrooms, one office, eight latrines, and a rainwater collection system for hand washing. The building’s construction ...
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By U.S. Embassy Cotonou | 27 June, 2019 | Topics: News, Press Releases | Tags: Inauguration, Program
Toni Blackman and Polaryss, two U.S. rappers, toured in Benin for two weeks as part of a program known as « Rhyme like a Beninese Girl ». During this tour organized by U.S. Embassy Cotonou, the two artists hosted masterclasses with local rap musicians, music students, as well as professional musicians. These masterclasses took place at ...
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By U.S. Embassy Cotonou | 12 June, 2019 | Topics: News, Press Releases | Tags: Hip Hop, music, Program
From June 4-June 6, U.S. Embassy Cotonou held a symposium on the theme “Combating border and transnational crime between Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso and Nigeria: Lessons learned from the American-Mexican border.” About 30 investigators and prosecutors from Benin, Togo, Burkina-Faso and Nigeria attended the training given by experts from the Drug Enforcement Agency, the U.S. ...
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By U.S. Embassy Cotonou | 5 June, 2019 | Topics: News, Press Releases | Tags: Program
MCC Board Selects Benin as Eligible to Develop a Concurrent Regional Compact ********** Cotonou, Benin. Dec. 13—The Millennium Challenge Corporation Board of Directors held its quarterly meeting on December 11, 2018 and approved Benin as eligible to develop a concurrent regional compact. Earlier this year, the United States Congress granted MCC the authority to select ...
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By U.S. Embassy Cotonou | 18 December, 2018 | Topics: Press Releases | Tags: Program
PAS Cotonou organized Benin’s first ever English Clubs Summit, which gathered 132 English club leaders from all over the country for a three-day training and networking program. The program, funded by a grant from Embassy Cotonou, was implemented by the Benin National Teachers of English Association (BNTEA) in partnership with “Titigweti English Club,” the largest ...
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By U.S. Embassy Cotonou | 26 January, 2018 | Topics: English Language Learning, News | Tags: English learning, Program
