Hi,
If your companion is a Benin citizen, he will need his passport or ECOWAS card to travel across West Africa, no visa required.
He needs an international driving license but in some countries (Ghana for example) he may be asked to produce his local (Benin) license in addition to the international license, he should be able to get a license in Benin before you guys set out.
Each bike requires a brown card (ECOWAS wide insurance) and a vehicle license.
Carnet? Just get a aissez-passer at each border, again, Ghana has the most paperwork and they check things through, like matching the engine and chassis number on your paper work to what is on the bike, well mostly at the main border points.
On small bikes, you may actually get away at some borders by just riding though after processing your passports, just be prepared for being turned back though.
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inyang
Port Harcourt, Nigeria
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