FILE: former Benin leader to return for talks after months of exile Benin's former leader Thomas Boni Yayi is expected to fly home for a brief meeting with President Patrice Talon, five months after leaving de-facto house arrest amid a political standoff. In this April 2019 press conference, Yayi said President Patrice Talon was "not going in the right direction." FILE IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES of Thomas Boni Yayi at a press conference from April 2019