Benin Votes for New President With Finance Minister Favored to Succeed Talon
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Voters in Benin cast ballots Sunday to choose a successor to President Patrice Talon, who is stepping down after a decade in power, leaving a mixed legacy of economic growth, a growing jihadi insurgency in the north and the suppression of opposition critics. Romuald Wadagni, the 49-year-old finance minister and governing …