Relationship dossier
Benin
Togo
Relationship assessment
Benin and Togo cooperate through shared electricity institutions and infrastructure.
Benin toward Togo
+35Benin participates with Togo in the jointly owned Communauté Électrique du Bénin, which manages shared power infrastructure, including the Nangbéto hydroelectric dam.
Togo toward Benin
+35Togo participates with Benin in the jointly owned Communauté Électrique du Bénin, which manages shared power infrastructure, including the Nangbéto hydroelectric dam.
Overall relationship
+35The relationship includes durable institutional cooperation in electricity generation and management, notably through the jointly owned Communauté Électrique du Bénin and the Nangbéto dam. The breadth of cooperation beyond this shared infrastructure is less clear.
How to read these scores
Scores are rough judgments, not objective measurements or current verification. Directional scores describe government policy and conduct, not public opinion. The overall score is an independent estimate, never an average.
- −100
- Extreme sustained hostility
- −50
- Substantially adversarial
- 0
- Mixed or neutral, supported by knowledge
- +50
- Substantially cooperative
- +100
- Exceptionally close sustained partnership
“Not assessed” means there is no recorded score. Pair existence makes no claim about diplomatic recognition or established relations.
Relationship context
Overview
Benin and Togo have a durable cooperative arrangement in the electricity sector through the jointly owned Communauté Électrique du Bénin, which manages shared power infrastructure including the Nangbéto hydroelectric dam. This is concrete bilateral cooperation, though the scope of other government-to-government cooperation is less clear.
Key developments
Benin and Togo jointly established the Communauté Électrique du Bénin to manage electricity cooperation and shared infrastructure.
Major uncertainties
- The current scope and implementation of cooperation through the Communauté Électrique du Bénin are unclear.
- Details of other bilateral agreements and government cooperation are limited.