Benin

Benin's government has admitted that 54 soldiers were killed by suspected jihadists in the country's north last week near the borders with Burkina Faso and Niger.

Ms Ochieng agrees with this assessment, saying that "the expansion of militant groups within the region in countries like Benin or Togo or other coastal West African states seems to be imminent".

The Netherlands says it will return more than 100 Benin Bronzes that British troops looted from Nigeria in the late 19th Century and which ended up in a Dutch museum.

Benin forces have suffered heavy losses in an attack near the border with insurgency-hit Niger and Burkina Faso, authorities have said.

The Igbuu Society - of which there are around 75 current members - is as old as Oguta itself, tracing its roots back over four centuries to the town's founding by migrants from the ancient Benin Kingdom.