8 January – Twenty-eight soldiers are killed in a gun attack near the border with Burkina Faso and Niger.[1]
30 January – A court in Cotonou convicts businessman Olivier Boko, his brother-in-law Rock Nieri, who is in hiding, and former sports minister Oswald Homeky of plotting a coup against President Patrice Talon and sentences them to 20 years' imprisonment and a fine of 60 billion CFA francs ($95 million).[2]
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