Sources: Site officiel du gouvernement du Bénin (Cotonou) and Bénin bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Benin has released a communiqué signed by Benin's Minister of Labour and Social Security, Adidjatou Mathys, announcing that the government of President Patrice Guillaume Athanase Talon had declared Monday, August 15, 2016, as a non-working public holiday throughout Bénin on account of the upcoming "fête de l’Assomption" annual non-working public holidays in the Bénin. [full story]