The Locminé Sister City Committee welcomed its counterparts from Medebach for a visit marked by friendship and cultural exchange.

Togo is strengthening its system for ensuring the quality of products sold within its borders. Following the Cabinet meeting held on Thursday, July 30, 2026, the government issued a decree establishing a national mechanism to assess the compliance of domestic and imported products before they are placed on the market.

The Minister of Social Affairs and Humanitarian Action, Lydie Pongault, presided over the ceremony on July 29 at the headquarters of the Single Social Registry in Brazzaville to award certificates of completion to young people who had completed training as part of the Social Protection and Productive Inclusion of Youth (PSIPJ) project.

After three months of pilot operation, the platform has registered more than 14,000 job seekers and more than 5,000 companies offering nearly 300,000 job openings.

From June 22 to 30, 2026, the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) organized, as part of the ETHISSA project co-funded by the European Union, a training program focused on the digitization of educational programs. This initiative helped strengthen the partner institutions’ skills in designing and implementing online courses in bioethics.

For nearly twelve years, the Argentré–Romania Association has been participating in a sister-city program with Reviga (Romania). And this year is no exception. From August 26 to 31, 29 Romanians will be hosted by families who were themselves hosted in Reviga in August 2025.

Marie-Claude Giraud serves as president, alongside Aurélie Torreilles (vice president), Gilles Pouyllau (treasurer), and Michel Borraz (secretary). On this occasion, Jackie Darrax was named an honorary member.

The Women's Education and Training Center, located in the municipality of Khemis Anjra, in the province of Fahs-Anjra, serves as a model for a community-based social organization dedicated to building women's skills and promoting their socioeconomic empowerment, particularly in rural areas, thanks to support from the National Initiative for Human Development (INDH).

The 454 Welcome Center, which has been located at St. Alban’s Church in the Côte-de-Sable neighborhood for several decades, is expected to move sometime in the new year.

Seven young people from Lindenfels spent a week in Moëlan-sur-Mer as part of the annual exchange program between the two towns. Upon their arrival at the Quimperlé train station on Monday, July 20, 2026, the students were met by committee members and then welcomed in Moëlan by their Breton exchange partners and host families.

The majority of agricultural soils in Benin are becoming increasingly depleted, leading to low agricultural productivity. The project “Sustainable Food Systems for Greater Resilience and Food and Nutritional Security in Benin,” which the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, and Fisheries officially launched on Friday, July 24, 2026, at the Benin Royal Hotel in Cotonou, is designed to provide a sustainable solution to this scourge that is undermining Benin’s agriculture.

Switzerland is the birthplace of mini-golf: its rules were established here, and a landscape architect from Ticino played a decisive role in standardizing the sport. Today, the Swiss Minigolf Federation has 43 clubs. Here’s the story.

Ten months after its launch, the regional instant payment platform continues to expand across the WAEMU. While early adoption figures are encouraging, connecting all financial institutions remains a challenge ahead of the September deadline.

A delegation of eleven residents from Ivenack, Germany, visited the town from Thursday through Sunday, where they were welcomed by the twinning committee to celebrate thirty years of friendship.

The Musée de la Mémoire Vivante in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli is offering visitors a new exhibition this summer. Titled “Memory: A Collective Heritage,” it has been on display since mid-May and will remain on view for several years.

The tenth edition of the African Anti-Corruption Day was celebrated on a delayed basis on July 18, at the Sueco Information and Training Center in Pointe-Noire, in the presence of Michel Mombili Aweyambi, secretary general of the High Authority for the Fight Against Corruption (HALC).

On July 21, fifty Belgians will take their seats in the VIP section to watch the National Day parade. All have been named BeHeroes 2026. Madeleine, 89, a former nurse with the ONE, will be among those in the VIP section for the July 21 parade. She founded the Collectif Logement – Maison de la Solidarité in Hannut. For more than forty years, this nonprofit organization has been supporting people facing housing difficulties in the Huy-Waremme district.

On Friday, the city of Tambacounda (east) hosted the launch ceremony for the fifth edition of the Global Convergence of Struggles for Land, the Global Convergence of Struggles for Land, Water, and Peasant Seeds in West Africa (CGLTE-AO), in the run-up to the World Social Forum, scheduled for August 4–8, 2026, in Cotonou, Benin.

To mark the 40th anniversary of the town twinning, visitors from Laichingen, Germany, will gather for the Corso Fleuri, an annual festival in Ducey-les-Chéris. A history told through photographs.

The Pierre-De Saurel RCM is launching “Visages de Saurel,” a series of 12 podcasts dedicated to the women and men who have shaped the history of the region’s municipalities. Through these profiles, the public is invited to discover the people who have shaped the region’s identity, culture, and development.