Click through as we put together a list of 25 national flags and their respective meanings. United Kingdom Though officially called the Union Flag, the flag of the U.K. is popularly known as the ...

Benin was a large and varied kingdom. Some people lived in villages and small towns, but most people lived and worked in Benin City. The people of Benin sold goods to merchants from Europe and ...

They carved masks for ceremonies and they moulded sculptures of gods out of mud. In Benin City, craft workers were organised into groups known as guilds. There were guilds for wood carvers ...

Before committing to athletics, Ahouanwanou was an elite soccer player who played as a young woman for Benin's national team. "I was also doing athletics in primary and secondary school," she told ...

When is National Flag Day in 2024? Know about National Flag Day and the day and date on which National Flag Day falls this year. Information about holidays and important days in 2015. Find out when is ...

When Vijaya, the first King of the island of Sri Lanka, arrived in Sri Lanka from India in 486 BC, he brought with him a flag with a symbol of a lion on it. Since then the Lion symbol played a ...

Benin prosecutors said Wednesday that three prominent men including a presidential guard commander have been arrested on suspicion of planning a “coup d’etat” in the small West African nation.

The first celebration of the U.S. Flag's birthday was held in 1877, on the 100th anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777. However, it is believed that the first annual recognition of the flag's ...

Benin's president accuses Niger of treating his country like an "enemy", as tensions escalate. The African music star mulls her 40-year career, which is to be celebrated at the Royal Albert Hall.

BENIN – The Benin National Congress (BNC) has solicited the appoint­ment of a Benin indigene as the incoming managing director of the Benin Owena River Basin Development Authority (BORB­DA ...

The law of 27 pluviôse, Year II (February 15, 1794), established the "tricolore" as the national flag. At the recommendation of the painter Jacques-Louis David, the law stipulated that the blue should ...

Benin announced Wednesday evening that it had foiled a coup attempt and arrested Republican Guard Commander Djimon Dieudonne Trvoedjre, former Sports Minister Oswald Homeky, and businessman ...