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China donates military equipment to Benin in latest bid to build ties in Africa
Benin’s military, which is fighting jihadists in the north of the country near the border with Burkina Faso and Niger, said in a statement that the equipment would “enable the units of the Beninese army to better respond to operational challenges on the …