Rachida Houssou
Benin
Correspondent
Yénoukunmè Rachida Houssou has been Justice Info's Benin correspondent since 2021. She is editor-in-chief of BIP RADIO (Bénin Infos Première), a private channel in Cotonou, after having been at Océan FM (2015-2019), and Frissons radio (2021-2022). She also collaborates with other international media, such as BBC Afrique since 2017. In 2022, she won the prize for best radio presenter at the Trophées des médias africains, and won in the same category at the Bénin Médias Awards. She holds a master's degree in communications from the University of Abomey Calavi, Benin, and is executive director of the journalists' association EKÔLAB, working to train journalists, educate the media, and produce and publish investigative journalism.
Why treasures returned to Benin are still in boxes
The November 2021 restitution of 26 art works stolen by French colonists from the Kingdom of Dahomey, in present-day Benin, was celebrated as a model. But these treasures that Benin’s people should finally be able to admire again have been put back in boxes, stored at the presidential residence. And the museum in Ouidah, which […]
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