Sources: Site officiel du gouvernement du Bénin (Cotonou) and Bénin bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Benin has released the communiqué 034/MTFPAS/DC/SGM/DGT/DRP/SRI, signed by Benin's Ministry of Labour's Cabinet Director, David Vidéhouénou, on behalf of the Ministre Du Travail, De La Fonction Publique Et Des Affaires Sociales, Adidjatou Mathys, announcing that Monday, September 12, 2016, had been declared as a non-working public holiday throughout Bénin on account of the upcoming annual non-working public holidays in the Bénin on account of the upcoming Tabaski (aka. Eid al-Adha or Feast of Sacrifice). [full story]