The Saint-Germain-de-la-Rivière twinning committee held its annual general meeting, providing an opportunity to review the highlights of the year and present future projects.

In the midst of municipal election campaigns, some Edmontonians are putting the climate issue at the heart of their priorities.

Thanks to the support of the Centre d'employabilité Francophone d'Abidjan, the DigiGreen and Agri project reached a major milestone with the organization of two Employability Bootcamp events on October 3 and 4, in Bouaké and San-Pédro.

Florence Le Berre, co-president of Quimperlé Geilenkirchen.

To mark the start of the new school year, the non-governmental organization (NGO) Elan de cœur, headed by Nadine Hounsinou Ngari, renewed its commitment to underprivileged children in Pointe-Noire. She handed out school kits, relieving parents in difficulty as classes resume.

Just before the City of Sorel-Tracy's regular municipal council meeting on October 1, the last before the November 2 elections, Mayor Patrick Péloquin unveiled the three-year capital expenditure program (PTI) for 2026, 2027 and 2028, with a particular focus on infrastructure related to water treatment and the aquatic complex.

From September 22 to 26, 2025, a delegation from the Institut National de la Femme (INF), led by its President, Me Huguette BOKPÈ GNACADJA, conducted an awareness-raising tour of five technical agricultural high schools in Benin. The aim: to prevent gender-based violence and combat sexual harassment in schools, a real obstacle to the development of learners, especially girls. This field trip is in response to a plea made by young girls in October 2024, who had alerted the INF to the risks of violence linked to their learning and living conditions in agricultural boarding schools.

The commune of Castets has strengthened its ties with Fustiñana, Navarre, through a symbolic and musical twinning, marked by the inauguration of signs and a joint concert.

In Togo, phase II of the TERSAA program (Transition des Systèmes Agricoles et Alimentaires sur les Territoires ruraux - Transition of Agricultural and Food Systems in Rural Territories) has just kicked off, on the sidelines of a meeting being held in Lomé until this Thursday, October 9, 2025.

The "Development of new tools for adding value to natural health products" project, supported by the AUF - Western Europe IntenSciF program, came to an end this summer after 19 months of collaboration between researchers from Algeria, Congo-Brazzaville and France, coordinated by the Université Clermont Auvergne.

Several associations offer French language courses to refugees in La Roche-sur-Yon. Such is the case of Défi. Focus.

On Tuesday, the Ministry of Health and Social Protection announced the launch of a national awareness, prevention and early detection campaign for breast and cervical cancers, to coincide with Pink October, World Cancer Awareness Month.

The tradition of dedicating the first Saturday of the month to sanitation in the country's major cities was respected on October 4 in Brazzaville, where Minister Juste Désiré Mondélé and his two colleagues in charge of education cleaned up three schools.

A new pilot project set up by the City of Ottawa makes it possible to rent sports equipment free of charge in 50 city parks (new window) [external link] thanks to self-service lockers accessible free of charge via a mobile application.

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Education for Nature - Vietnam (ENV) announced that 91 wild animals were released into the forest of Tam Dao National Park at the end of September, following a successful rehabilitation period at the Hanoi Wildlife Rescue Center.

On Wednesday in Marrakech, the Institut de Recherche en Énergie Solaire et Énergies Nouvelles (IRESEN) and the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) signed a collaboration agreement in the field of green hydrogen, on the sidelines of the 5th World Power-to-X Summit.

Renovate your home yourself, with the advice and support of entrepreneurs trained in coaching: that's the aim of the "Pro et Moi" project, supported by the Walloon Region. Last night, this "supported self-renovation program" was presented to the public in Braine-l'Alleud. Encouraged by local and regional authorities, the formula is part of a policy of energy transition for housing. A plus for the planet, reducing the cost and duration of certain building projects, and saving energy. This pilot project has been initiated in several Walloon municipalities. In these times of crisis and restrictions on regional subsidies, it may well convince some would-be renovators.

The Carballo-L'Isle-Jourdain twinning committee offers Spanish courses at various levels. Beginners can take their first steps in the language. Intermediates can perfect their Spanish, as can advanced learners.

The low turnout of young people in Charlevoix elections is a cause for concern. In the run-up to the November 2 municipal elections, some twenty students from the Centre d'études collégiales en Charlevoix (CECC) attended a workshop in La Malbaie. The aim: to raise awareness of the right to vote.