Spreading Islamist insurgency dominates Benin's presidential campaign
Brief
Cross-border raids from militant Islamists are increasingly threatening the West African state's stability.
It signalled the continuation of a trend witnessed last year, when 28 of Benin's soldiers were killed in January in an attack in the W National Park, which stretches into Niger and Burkina Faso, and another 54 three months later in the same park - making it the highest death toll suffered by the military at the hands of the insurgents.