{"id":8269,"date":"2026-04-12T07:20:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T07:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/?p=8269"},"modified":"2026-04-12T07:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T07:20:21","slug":"benin-holds-presidential-election-four-months-after-failed-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/?p=8269","title":{"rendered":"Benin holds presidential election four months after failed coup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>As president Patrice Talon steps down after a decade, the west African country\u2019s finance minister is favourite to win<\/p>\n<p>This Sunday, just four months after a failed coup, Benin heads to the polls for a presidential election that feels more like a coronation than a contest.<\/p>\n<p>Patrice Talon, the businessman turned politician who has been president since 2016, is ineligible to run again after serving two five-year terms.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/12\/benin-presidential-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As president Patrice Talon steps down after a decade, the west African country\u2019s finance minister is favourite to win This Sunday, just four months after a failed coup, Benin heads to the polls for a presidential election that feels more like a coronation than a contest. Patrice Talon, the businessman turned politician who has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[92,497,158,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-amnesty-international","category-benin","category-world-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}