Money notes had to be printed when civil servants could not be paid as banks had run out of hard currency. France often exported hard currency to save the government from strikes and potential coups resulting from unpaid civil servants and soldiers. The collapse of communism in the 1990's reduced the amount of support Benin received from Eastern bloc countries. He promised to abandon his dictatorial ways. Democracy has lasted in Benin and this small country now stands as an example to other budding African democracies and established dictatorships.
Voodoo ceremonies are quite common in urban areas with participants entering trance states.
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