This article chronicles the history of Benin. The country was the seat of one of the great medieval African kingdoms called Danhomey. As of 1990, the territory became a French colony. It gained full independence from France in 1960. Between 1960 and 1972, a succession of military coups ...
Headquartered in N’Djamena, the capital city of Chad, MNJTF is a military task force formed by the governments of Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria to end Boko Haram’s insurgencies. It evolved from a Nigerian task force constituted back in 1994 to deal with banditry activities in...
Along the coast, the Edo people established the Benin Empire (not to be confused with the present-day country of Benin to the west), which reached its height of power in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. As in the north, outsiders heavily influenced the societies of southern Nigeria. ...
One of his plans was to establish a new capital territory in the center of the country, at Abuja. On 13 February 1976, Muhammad was assassinated in the course of an abortive insurgency. He was replaced as head of the government by the former chief of staff of the armed forces, Lt. ...
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to Mexico. They were an integral part of the planet’s ecosystems, occupying more territory than any other mammal in history, second only to that of Man himself, whose subsequent flourishing contributed to the loss of habitat and diminished range of the lion, right on up to the present day...
Although, at the time, it was the religion of a few elite until the nineteenth century. The Niger River, the name from which Nigeria is coined, empties into the Bights of Benin and Bonny, through an intricate network of Delta characterized by a thick mangrove which the British ventured in...
International disputes:Libya claims about 25,000 sq km in a currently dormant dispute in the Tommo region; location of Benin-Niger-Nigeria tripoint is unresolved; only Nigeria and Cameroon have heeded the Lake Chad Commission's admonition to ratify the delimitation treaty that also includes the Ch...
“The most important feature of the Amazons was not that they could kill like men,” says Wantchekon, a Benin native. “They were also regular people with regular lives, as well as well-respected cultural and political leaders in their communities.” ...
Nigeria is a country in West Africa, Officially called the Federal Republic of Nigeria, with thirty-six states and the federal capital territory, Abuja. Nigeria got her independence on October lst, 1960, and is made up of over 450 ethnic groups with Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba being the major...