Patrice Talon begins an official trip to Brazil on Thursday May 23 until May 26. This is the first visit by an African head of state since the return to power of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in 2022. Lula da Silva knows Benin, he went there in 2013 on behalf of his institution. Interview, signing of a strategic partnership between the two countries with a “memorial tourism” sequence, a “big” visit, according to a Beninese diplomat.
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With our correspondent in Cotonou, Jean-Luc Aplogan
The program of Patrice Talon promises to be busy: head-to-head with the President Lula Thursday May 23, first day of the visit, signing of agreements, a lunch in honor of Patrice Talon with the government and the Brazilian economic world.
Four Beninese ministers are on the trip, those of Finance, Foreign Affairs, Agriculture and Culture.
Memorial tourism, one of the pillars of the visit
Benin recently reopened its embassy in Brazil and RFI has learned that the ambassador is presenting his credentials this Wednesday, May 22 to President Lula, just before the start of the visit.
Partnership agreements should concern, among others, education, infrastructure, agriculture, construction.
Patrice Talon will travel to Salvador de Bahia and especially to Sao de Luis, a colonial town where the mother of King Ghézo, ninth king of Abomey, sold as a slave, stayed and created a voodoo convent. Memorial tourism is one of the pillars of the program of the Beninese head of state.