benin: Women Groups Aim Daggers at the Heart of Abuse

After her husband died, Louise Anagonou was banished from their matrimonial home, which she and her husband had built at Ouidah, a small town some 40 kilometres west of the commercial capital, Cotonou. ''In Benin, women are still kidnapped, forced into marriage, beaten and raped by their husbands,'' says Genevieve Boko-Nadjo of Women in Law and Development in Africa (WILDAF), a non-governmental organisation, which has offices all over sub-Saharan Africa.