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Floods in Atikpeta, Benin
Society | Agriculture - Nutrition

Half of Benin devastated by floods

afrol News - Devastating flooding has affected nearly half the communes of Benin. According to the government, 700,000 people have been affected, including more than 200,000 people whose homes have been damaged or destroyed.

Beninese schoolchild
Science - Education

Benin soon to offer universal education

afrol News - Beninese authorities report they are on track to ensure primary education for all by 2015, provided current efforts can be maintained. Already last year, school enrolment reached 109 percent(!).


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Economy - Development
Benin's economic performance and indicators; 2000

afrol News - The International Monetary foundation (IMF) in 2000 assessed Benin's economic and financial performance under the 1998-99 program "as broadly satisfactory, although the financial situation in the cotton sector deteriorated sharply and implementation of key structural reforms was delayed."

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Book title, Léopold Sédar Senghor
Culture - Arts

Francophone Literature:
From Negritude to Realism


afrol News - The wave of prices the Francophone writers, both African and Caribbean, have been winning the last years, has placed their works in the focus of world literature. Renovation seemingly is the most eye-catching they have achieved. Follow their way from the "Negritude" movement to modern realism.

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