The Minister of Health and Social Action, Ibrahima Sy, inaugurated two health posts and a maternity ward in the Tambacounda health district in eastern Senegal on Sunday.

In Matéri and Cobly, two communes in the Atacora region, the beneficiaries of several projects to build agricultural product processing units, storage warehouses, rice-growing perimeters and boreholes are all smiles. From March 16 to 22, 2025, a joint FNDA - BUCO COTONOU - CONSORTIUM SWICCONTACT-LARES mission went to see the completion of work on these infrastructures.

Strong global climate protection could save the glaciers of the Swiss Alps, especially those above 3000 m. Since 2000, the volume of glaciers in Switzerland has fallen by almost 40%.

The second vice-president of the N'Zi regional council, Niambé Kouadio Bernard, has announced that women from four localities in the Bocanda department (Centre-East, N'Zi region) will benefit from a training project for the large-scale production and processing of corn and soybeans, to empower them.

The Couhé region twinning committee held its general meeting on Thursday February 20, 2025 at 8pm in the Salle de la Communauté de Communes in Couhé, chaired by Gil Senelier and attended by around twenty people, including two representatives from the Gençay twinning committee.

Begun on November 13, 2024, the first edition of the Nestlé Campus Challenge came to a close on March 22, 2025. For four months, some 5,000 students from the public and private universities of Koudougou, Bobo-Dioulasso and Ouagadougou submitted 319 projects to the jury. Ten projects were selected for the grand final, and their promoters benefited from a three-week pre-incubation period. At the end of the finalists' pitches, it was the "Wifash" project by students from Joseph-Ki-Zerbo University that won over the jury. The team took home a cheque for 1,500,000 FCFA and will benefit from an immersion internship at Nestlé Burkina.

The International Day of Forests, celebrated every March 21, this year focuses on the theme of forests and food, celebrating the crucial role of forests in food security and human well-being.

The charter linking the two communes will be signed on May 30 at the Vesunna museum. The twinning committee is currently being set up.

As part of Francophonie Week, the Agence universitaire de la francophonie (AUF) launched a series of activities in Brazzaville on March 20 to promote the French language.

Create your own mug or perfume, learn to weld, bake or woodwork: creative workshops are springing up all over Belgium. The concept? A craftsman opens his doors to you and helps you create an object while sharing his know-how. For participants, it's a chance to make something with their own hands. For the artisans, it's a moment of sharing, but also a major source of income and visibility. Come on, let's take you to the workshop!

Togo is resolutely pursuing its transition to sustainable development, focusing on climate resilience and social inclusion.

To mark International Women's Day, the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) is showcasing a series of portraits and interviews with inspiring, committed women from the French-speaking world. Discover the three-question interview with Faridah Dosso, a researcher at the University of Parakou (Benin), who has just been awarded the Prix Bonus RRI by the AUF in 2024.

On Wednesday afternoon, local elected representatives from the Communauté de communes Haute Sarthe Alpes mancelles (CCHSAM) met at the Salle Gilbert Chauveau in Fresnay-sur-Sarthe to sign the Opération de Revitalisation du Territoire (ORT) agreement, in the presence of the sous-préfet of the Mamers district, Quentin Spooner.

The Mutuelle de santé des agents de l'État (MSAE) organized free oral health consultations in Bignona on Thursday, to mark World Oral Health Day.

The regional municipality of Grand Falls in northwestern New Brunswick is setting up two scholarships in conjunction with the Medical Education Foundation, to attract young doctors to practice in the community.

On display on the town hall forecourt until March 30, 2025, an exhibition traces the 40-year friendship between the towns of Cholet (Maine-et-Loire) and Oldenburg, Germany.

Several U.S.-funded projects have resumed activities after a period of suspension, according to a representative of the External Affairs Department of Quang Tri province (Center).

Participants in a symposium on oral health in Casablanca on Thursday called for greater promotion of prevention and improved access to care.

Since November, the school in Bagnol has had its own bicycle workshop. Students in the 3e prépa métiers class learn how to repair bicycles in a weekly class supervised by a teacher and two volunteers from the Gard o Climat association.

If you're a cyclist, you're probably familiar with the network of "junction points": almost 8,000 km of signposted routes to facilitate cycling... Well, in Hainaut, a department in the north of France, the same system is going to be adapted for pedestrians. The project, dubbed "Henriette", is financed by European funds (INTEREG). We followed a team from the province of Hainaut: hiking experts sent out to scout the area.