"Diplomacy is not only played out in embassies and international bodies, it is also played out in the territories." - Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs, speech at the launch of the Citizen Diplomatic Reserve, July 3, 2025.

The 18 cemeteries in Beauraing and the surrounding villages have been changing over the last few years. Mineral is gradually being replaced by vegetation. Gone are the gravel paths, replaced by grass and sedum. A communal project that will soon be fully implemented and adapted to changing phytosanitary standards.

An awareness-raising meeting on the theme of "the right of access to information" was held on Tuesday in Oujda, on the initiative of the association Pionniers du changement pour le développement et la culture.

Municipal councillors in the MRC des Chenaux are mobilizing to demand more measures from Transport Québec to make Highway 40 between Trois-Rivières and Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade safer and reduce the number of collisions with deer.

The pan-African FEMMPACT program launches its second edition in Togo, Benin and Mauritania, with the ambition of transforming the ideas of women entrepreneurs into viable, competitive projects. This new stage follows on from a successful first phase in Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal.

On July 1, 2025, the 3rd edition of the Assises Internationales des Médecines Traditionnelles was held online, bringing together experts and researchers from 12 African, Asian and European countries. Organized by the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie with the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) and Madagascar's Centre National d'Application des Recherches Pharmaceutiques (CNARP), it highlighted the wealth of traditional knowledge and its role in a holistic approach to health.

36 of the 95 clubs in the town were present at the 3rd edition of the associations forum on Saturday September 13.

On September 11 in Brazzaville, the non-governmental organization "Observatoire handicap humanité (H20)", headed by Emmanuel Bati, handed out kits to disabled women of all categories, with a view to empowering this category of people involved in small-scale trade.

Two thousand eight hundred and three vulnerable households in the southern department of Bignona will benefit from the Agricultural Resilience Program (PRA) designed to boost the country's food security, Maïmouna Dièye, Minister for the Family, Social Action and Solidarity, was told on Friday.

Petite-Forêt is gearing up for a major event in 2026, celebrating 50 years of friendship and twinning with the Italian town of Correzzola.

Clarence-Rockland City Council unanimously adopted a motion Wednesday evening to secure its French-language services.

A delegation of local councillors and residents travelled to Germany last weekend to celebrate 52 years of friendship with music, at the traditional Herbstmesse, a large folk fair.

The Coalition burkinabè pour les droits de la femme (CBDF), with the support of the African Women's Development Fund (AWDF), is organizing a training session from September 11 to 12, 2025 in Bobo-Dioulasso, on the theme: "Empowering young girl leaders: from citizen mobilization to building strategic alliances". This initiative is part of the project "Promoting the participation of women and girls in political life in the communes of Bobo-Dioulasso, Koudougou and Manga".

The Ministry of National Education and Literacy (MENA) has taken a decisive step towards implementing the recommendations of the États généraux de l'Éducation nationale et de l'Alphabétisation (EGENA), with the signing, on Monday September 1, 2025, of the Contrats d'objectifs et de performance (COP).

The commune is twinned with the Canadian town of Whitehorse, in tribute to one of its illustrious inhabitants, Robert-William Service, the novelist and poet who died in Lancieux (Côtes-d'Armor).

On September 3, 2025, the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) Middle East officially launched the EUSEEDS project (Enable, Upgrade and Spread Employability, Entrepreneurship and Digital Skills of the Eastern Mediterranean youth through dedicated university centers), co-financed by the European Union as part of the Interreg NEXT MED program.

Converting containers into temporary housing for the homeless? The idea seemed ambitious a year ago, but now Gatineau's Village Transitiôn is beginning to realize the effect it has on the lives of its residents several months after their arrival. An effect that cities like Montreal and Quebec City are trying to recreate in part.

On Tuesday September 9, 2025 in Djémégni, in the Plateaux region, Togo launched a vast campaign to distribute school kits to over 100,000 girls in 800 localities across the country, at a total estimated cost of 602 million FCFA.

On the occasion of the 26ᵉ anniversary of the Vallet scholarship, celebrated on September 6, around 700 deserving pupils and students from northern Vietnam gathered for the Vallet 2025 scholarship award ceremony in Hanoi. AUF - Asia-Pacific is honored to have been invited to this memorable event and to have had the opportunity to present scholarships to the students.

In Brazzaville, the 1st Saturday in September was devoted to the ongoing operation to clean out drains and gutters, sweep arteries, raise awareness among local residents and warn pre-collectors who are in the habit of dumping waste outside transit areas.