{"id":2000113052,"date":"2026-05-25T11:52:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T09:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/?p=2000113052"},"modified":"2026-05-25T11:59:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T09:59:03","slug":"benin-announces-new-government-lineup-after-president-takes-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/benin-announces-new-government-lineup-after-president-takes-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Benin announces new government lineup after president takes office"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the decree, the new government consists of 19 ministers and 5 minister-delegates. Among the new appointments, Corinne Amori Brunet, former Beninese Ambassador to France, has been named as foreign minister. Aristide Medenou has been appointed as minister of economy and finance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wadagni pledged to focus on job creation, access to basic services and social protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wadagni was sworn in on Sunday morning in Cotonou, Benin&#8217;s economic capital. Under the Beninese Constitution, the president holds executive power, serves as the head of government and exercises administrative regulatory authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1199\" height=\"674\" src=\"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/76479843_605.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2000113053\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Beninese President Romuald Wadagni signed a decree on late Sunday announcing the lineup of the new government.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beninese President Romuald Wadagni signed a decree on late Sunday announcing the lineup of the new government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000113053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[101],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2000113052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-internationl","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000113053,"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/76479843_605.jpg","alt":"","caption":"Beninese President Romuald Wadagni signed a decree on late Sunday announcing the lineup of the new government.","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":1199,"height":674,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/76479843_605.jpg","width":150,"height":84},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/76479843_605.jpg","width":300,"height":169},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/76479843_605.jpg","width":768,"height":432},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/76479843_605.jpg","width":1024,"height":576},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/76479843_605.jpg","width":1199,"height":674}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000113052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000113052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000113052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000113055,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000113052\/revisions\/2000113055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000113053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000113052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000113052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000113052"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2000113052"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2000113052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}