Benin votes for new president, with finance minister favoring Talon’s successor
Dakar, Senegal — Voters in Benin voted on Sunday to choose a successor to President Patrice Talon, who is leaving a mixed legacy of economic growth, a growing jihadist insurgency in the north and repression of opposition critics after a decade in power. Romuald Vadagni, the 49-year-old finance minister and standard-bearer of the ruling coalition,…