Tensions Between Niger and Benin escalates
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Tensions between Niger and Benin have escalated further over a decision by Cotonou to prevent its landlocked neighbour from using its port to export its first crude oil, as a border dispute between the two rages on. The blockade jeopardises Niger’s plan to start exporting crude oil to China under a $400 million deal. Niger’s […]