A cabinet meeting on 11 September approved the appointment of Canada’s Manitoba Hydro International as management contractor and a consortium of Société Française de Réalisation d’Etudes et de Conseil (Sofreco) and AAA-KPMG Togo as contract auditor for Société Béninoise d’Energie Electrique (SBEE). The companies, which were selected following a tender process, will support reforms to the utility as part of the US Millennium Challenge Corporation’s $403m Millennium Challenge Account-Benin II 2017-2022.