According to the Brussels fire department, the donation is a further step in Brussels' solidarity with the Ukrainian people, who have been hard hit by the war.
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A residential project in Sherbrooke's Saint-Élie sector could be on the horizon. Elected officials voted 12-2 in favor of opening Rue du Castor, which will link the 21 new residential lots to Chemin Rhéaume.
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A meeting was held on Wednesday in Laâyoune to present the results of the first mission of the study on the Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra regional coastal plan (SRL), carried out by the Regional Environment Directorate.
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The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) is inviting national, regional and local governments, as well as non-governmental organizations, to express their interest in organizing World Clean-up Day 2026.
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On Saturday August 30 and Sunday August 31, the commune of Andouillé (Mayenne) and its twinning association welcomed a delegation from Slovakia for the last time. After twenty years of exchanges and friendship, the adventure is coming to an end.
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The municipality of Saint-Thomas invites the public to attend the inauguration of a commemorative sculpture marking 20 years of twinning between Saint-Thomas and La Roque-Gageac, a French commune.
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From August 19 to 21, 2025, the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) and the Hô Chi Minh City University of Pedagogy (UP HCMV) co-organized a workshop dedicated to the elaboration of the Operational Development Plan (ODP) for students' digital skills, as part of the ACCEES project "Accelerating the development of the digital ecosystem in Vietnamese higher education", funded by the Erasmus+ Program.
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On Wednesday September 3, 2025, the Institut des finances publiques du Burkina (IFPB) hosted an official ceremony to launch ongoing training sessions for staff of the Direction générale du Trésor et de la comptabilité publique (DGTCP).
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The City of Trois-Rivières inaugurated its new airport terminal on Friday. The project benefited from investments from all levels of government, totalling $20 million.
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The Consulate General of Vietnam, in collaboration with the Ho Chi Minh City Young Entrepreneurs Association and the Thai-Vietnamese All-Thailand Entrepreneurs Association, jointly organized the Vietnam - Thailand 2025 Business Forum in Khon Kaen, Thailand, on August 28.
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At the end of last week in Aného, the Lacs 1 commune made public its management report covering fiscal years 2020 to 2024, as well as the 2025 administrative account. Over five years, successive budgets totaled 5.46 billion FCFA. Revenues raised amounted to 2.59 billion FCFA, while expenditure was estimated at 2.78 billion FCFA.
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Mainvilliers. The local economy supports the town in exchange for visibility.
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As part of its "Support for local governance and training of elected representatives in the Republic of Congo" project, the Centre d'action pour le développement (CAD) organized a capacity-building workshop for municipal and departmental councillors on human rights and democratic governance in Brazzaville on August 29.
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UCLouvain is a major player in the student rental market in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, owning 6,300 properties. But some of these kots and apartments are not in very good condition. A vast renovation plan has therefore been launched, both in Louvain-la-Neuve and on the university's other sites.
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Twinning Ézy-Brensbach will soon be 50 years old. The Twinning Committee is working on a number of projects to celebrate the event.
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On Monday August 25, 2025, the NGO Indigo Côte d'Ivoire organized an educational session on the protection of protected areas, forests and sacred sites, in partnership with the Ivorian Office of Parks and Reserves (OIPR). The meeting was held in Kong's Sagara district and brought together community representatives, local associations and residents.
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From August 10 to 14, 2025, a joint mission from the FNDA, Swiss Cooperation, Swisscontact and Lares visited Agricultural Development Poles 3 and 4 (UDP AD and UDP BA) to carry out the provisional acceptance and monitoring of ongoing projects. Everywhere it went, the delegation noted the satisfaction of the beneficiaries, who expressed their gratitude to the FNDA and its technical and financial partners.
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With decentralization in full swing since 2003, an innovative response to the lack of economic and commercial infrastructure in Benin's communes was launched in 2013: the construction of EMIs using local materials. An audacious gamble, supported by Swiss Cooperation and the Beninese government through the PDIEM, and which, more than a decade later, is revolutionizing the local construction landscape.
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For the restoration of heritage linked to sheep farming in the Agneaux de Lacaune area.
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On August 29, 2025, Benin is set to celebrate its National Day at the Osaka 2025 World Expo, offering the international public a unique and immersive experience, combining heritage, creativity and future prospects. The celebration, which is part of the Expo's official calendar, illustrates Benin's determination to raise its profile on the world stage and assert itself as a dynamic player on the African continent.
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For the second year running, the Centre francophone du Grand Toronto (CFGT) has handed out school kits to 150 families newly settled in the city.
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Protective equipment is no longer stored in Brussels, but in Gembloux. The aim is to be more efficient in distributing masks, gloves, goggles and other protective clothing in the event of a health crisis in the south of the country. This equipment is better packaged and can be delivered more quickly to retirement homes, institutions for the disabled and other SPW (Service Public de Wallonie) communities. This project is the fruit of a public-private partnership with AVIQ (Agence wallonne pour une Qualité de Vie) and Medista (a Belgian SME).
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14 elected representatives from Le Mas-d'Agenais and 10 from Biesheim met for an extraordinary meeting of both town councils on Saturday August 16.
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From August 13 to 15, Phnom Penh hosted a regional training course on "The application of artificial intelligence (AI) in the teaching of French for specific purposes (FOS) and French as a professional language (FLP)".
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"Acting for humanity" is the theme under which national and international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in the Goulmou, Tapoa and Sirba regions celebrated World Humanitarian Day (WHD) in Fada N'Gourma on August 19, 2025. A day dedicated to those who devote their time, breath and lives to bringing aid where it's needed.
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As it does every spring and fall, the City of Quebec will be distributing 2,000 trees to Quebec City residents on Saturday, September 6.
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In the summer of 2025, north of Caen (Calvados), the commune of Épron is doing all it can to re-launch its unusual twinning with Zufre, a Spanish village in Andalusia.
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The "Pavillon Bleu" label was awarded to Sidi Abed beach on Monday for the fifth year running, in recognition of the quality of the bathing water, the cleanliness of the site and compliance with environmental and safety standards.
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Health experts, public institutions, international partners, influencers, journalists and young leaders are taking part from August 19 to 22 in Brazzaville in a training workshop dedicated to responsible communication and the co-creation of content on sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and the fight against gender-based violence (GBV).
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