[egbavou]

Updates Benin against the laws that define its holidays.

Change	Source
Traditional religions festival on 10 January from 1998 to 2024, then on the second Friday of January and the Thursday before it from 2025 (was a fixed 10 January for every year)	Law 97-031 of 20 August 1997; Law 2024-32 of 2 September 2024, art. 2–3
French names follow the wording of Law 90-019 (e.g. "Fête du Nouvel An", "Jour de l’Assomption", "Jour du Ramadan", "Jour de la Tabaski", "Journée Maouloud")	Law 90-019 of 27 July 1990, art. 1
English names "Vodoun Festival" for the festival and "National Day" for 1 August ("Fête Nationale")	–
The three National Days of article 3 are added as observances: Journée de Souvenir (16 January), Journée de la Souveraineté du Peuple (28 February), Journée de la Femme (8 March)	Law 90-019, art. 3

The rules for the Islamic holidays are unchanged; only their French names change.

Examples: 9–10 January 2025, 8–9 January 2026 (both declared by official communiqués) and 7–8 January 2027 (January starts on a Friday).

Sources

• Law 90-019 (legal holidays and National Days): https://sgg.gouv.bj/doc/loi-90-019/
• Law 97-031 (traditional religions festival on 10 January): https://sgg.gouv.bj/doc/loi-97-031/
• Law 2024-32 (second Friday of January, Thursday before also off): https://sgg.gouv.bj/doc/loi-2024-32/
• 8–9 January 2026 declared under Law 2024-32: https://lepatriotebenin.com/index.php/2026/01/02/celebration-des-religions-traditionnelles-au-benin-les-journees-des-8-et-9-janvier-2026-declarees-feriees-chomees-et-payees/

Checks

• Fixtures regenerated with mocha test/all.mocha.js --writetests --countries BJ; only BJ-*.json changed.
• npm test passes.

[commenthol]

Thanks for your contribution.

[egbavou]

My pleasure, and thanks for the quick merge and the 3.38.0 release!