Together with members of the community targeting committees, the Projet de protection sociale et d'inclusion productive des jeunes (PSIPJ) validated the lists of vulnerable young people in the Pointe-Noire department on July 9.

Long threatened by a housing project far too big for it, the "Bois de la Tannerie", at the gateway to Waremme, will finally be preserved.

On July 7, 2025, the Prefecture of the Île-de-France region, Prefecture of Paris, hosted a regional symposium dedicated to the employment of people over the age of 50, bringing together all the public, economic and social players involved in advancing the position of seniors in the job market. Organized in partnership with the Association Nationale des DRH (ANDRH), France Travail, the Association pour l'Emploi des Cadres (APEC) and employers' organizations, and moderated by journalist Nicolas Pagniez, this event was part of the National Initiative for the Employment of the Over-50s, promoted by the Minister of Labor and Employment, Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet.

The Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) continues its expansion in Southern Africa with a key mission to Angola. Led by Prof. Aïssatou Sy-Wonyu, AUF Regional Director for Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean (DRAAOI), the visit strengthened relations with Angolan authorities and opened up new prospects for Francophone university cooperation in this fast-developing Portuguese-speaking country.

Vietnam and Cuba have reached an agreement to strengthen exchanges of professional experience and the training of human resources in the field of television production.

Happy anniversary to the twinning between Antibes, Newport Beach (USA) and Kinsale (Ireland)! For 35 years, our three towns have enjoyed a special relationship through school and cultural exchanges, facilitated by the Antibes Jumelages association.

Photos'Or BF, Burkina's photographic trek, has established itself as a major cultural event promoting the country's heritage. On the eve of its third edition, scheduled for August 2025, its promoter Dieudonné Ouoba, aka "DTO Pictures", takes us behind the scenes of this visual adventure, with its challenges, innovations and ambitions, with one watchword: to immortalize Burkina Faso's rich cultural, tourist and hotel heritage through the lens.

The City of Windsor, Ontario, has acquired a $30,000 vacuum cleaner to pick up litter, as part of its efforts to revitalize the downtown core. The device was unveiled on Monday.

The Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie actively participated in the 5ᵉ edition of the Rencontre des Entrepreneurs Francophones (REF), held from June 26 to 28, 2025 in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo.

A "relentless woodworker reminiscent of the region's industrial history" will become the Ville de Gatineau's emblem bird.

The first edition of the "Aula Mediterrània Marroc" summer school opened on Tuesday at the Abdelmalek Essaâdi University (UAE), under the theme "Understanding the Mediterranean in an era of crises". The event, organized by the UAE in partnership with the Government of Catalonia, the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed) and the Spanish Embassy in Rabat, is the fruit of a partnership between the University and several Spanish academic establishments, with a view to creating a Euro-Mediterranean space for exchange and dialogue, based on the values of tolerance, interculturality and critical research.

As in previous years, the communes of Hauts-de-Seine feature prominently in the list of France's safest cities. This year, nine of them made it into the top 30.

The friendship pact signed on the occasion of Saint-Denis 2024 between the towns of Dreux and Bogatić in Serbia, will culminate in a twinning arrangement next September. A pétanque tournament is being organized to finance the trip.

African women directors from six countries in the sub-region expressed their willingness to work on changing the narrative about women to better represent them on screen.

In Huy, the Justice Department is offering drug addicts a deal: treatment rather than punishment. This program will enable small-scale users to avoid court. In exchange, they must commit to a course of treatment strictly supervised by the city's prevention department. A targeted program, aimed at those who have accumulated addictions, but who are determined to break the cycle.

Between 2020 and 2024, Togo consolidated its local diplomacy through 52 decentralized cooperation agreements, 39 of which are currently active. These partnerships, involving 38 of the country's 117 communes, have mobilized some 1.2 billion FCFA, according to a report validated last week in Témédja (Amou 3).

Friday July 04, 2025 marks an important date for Benin. In plenary session, the members of the 9th legislature unanimously adopted the law on the National Development Vision 2060, presented by the Minister of State, Minister of Development and Coordination of Government Action, Mr. Abdoulaye BIO TCHANÉ.

On Friday, July 4, the twinning charters were signed at the Hôtel de Ville, to celebrate 20 years of cooperation between Tulsa and Amiens Métropole, and 65 years of twinning between Dortmund and the City of Amiens.

With the aim of reducing the risks to firefighters exposed to carcinogenic substances in the course of their work, the Ville de Montréal announced on Thursday investments in the maintenance and renewal of protective clothing for Service de sécurité incendie de Montréal (SIM) personnel.

Hundreds of young volunteers in Ho Chi Minh City have committed themselves to supporting the implementation of the two-tier governance model and assisting citizens in the use of digital public services at local level.