The municipality of Hamady Ounaré, in the Kanel Department (northeast), has provided school supplies to all schools in the municipality as part of its efforts to support the start of the school year.
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A multidisciplinary medical outreach program was organized from October 10 to 12 to benefit residents of the mountainous areas of Errachidia Province, with the aim of bringing health care closer to this segment of society.
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The municipality has signed a partnership agreement with the Actiom association to offer a low-cost, group-based, mutual health insurance plan. Individual consultation sessions and an informational meeting are scheduled to assist residents.
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The Minister Delegate for the Budget and the Civil Service, in collaboration with the Minister of Digital Transformation and Innovation, who is responsible for the national artificial intelligence strategy, is launching the presidential initiative “National Award for Administrative Simplification.”
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A new sister-city partnership with Montesquieu-des-Albères to bring history to life and bridge the gap between generations.
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After several years marked by a slowdown in exchanges, the sister-city relationship between Pamiers and Crailsheim aims to regain momentum. Meeting in Germany a few days ago, elected officials and community leaders reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening cultural, athletic, and civic ties between the two cities, placing young people and community organizations at the heart of this effort.
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The "Second Chance Schools—New Generation" program was launched on Thursday in the province of Rehamna, as part of the ongoing efforts of the National Initiative for Human Development (INDH) to combat school dropout rates and promote social and professional integration, as well as adaptation to the real needs of the job market.
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The prefect of the Gontougo region and prefect of the Bondoukou department, Kouadio Gbongbo André, rallied artisanal miners and stakeholders in the gold sector to combat illegal gold mining on Thursday, October 8, 2026, at the prefecture, with the aim of ensuring compliance with the mining moratorium and the Ivorian Mining Code.
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With the support of the Dinan-Abstatt sister city committee, André Pasquet, a 20-year-old student from Dinan, completed several internships in the small town in southern Germany. This experience reinforced his decision to pursue his third year of undergraduate studies at a university across the Rhine.
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In Togo, the 2026 edition of “Local Consumption Month” was officially launched on Tuesday, October 6, in Lomé. Scheduled to run through October 31, this year’s initiative emphasizes the role of local consumption in regional integration and the strengthening of economic sovereignty.
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Dominik Hartmann, a chef from Schwyz who specializes in exclusively vegetarian cuisine, was named "Chef of the Year 2027" by Gault & Millau.
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The Beninese government is injecting new momentum into the promotion of domestic production. This Thursday, October 1, 2026, marks the official kickoff of the 7th edition of “Local Consumption Month,” highlighted by a strategic field visit by the Minister of Domestic Trade and Economic Formalization, Ms. Shadiya Alimatou ASSOUMAN, to the heart of the Glo-Djigbé (GDIZ) industrial hub. This visit underscores the shift toward heavy industry and the development of Benin’s natural mineral resources.
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The Plaine-Haute Sister City Committee organized its traditional takeout meal this past weekend, October 3. On the menu: roast pork and potatoes with bacon.
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For nearly two years, Gérard Guillerm, a member of the Carantec Culture association, has been serving as an unofficial representative of the town hall in connection with a potential sister-city partnership with the town of Kenmare, Ireland.
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Thirty women from the Kaolack and Fatick regions (central Senegal) received training in leadership and governance of farmers’ organizations as part of an initiative aimed at building their capacity in agricultural entrepreneurship.
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Faced with the high cost of living and the pressures of daily life, some Australian families are trying out a new way of raising their children. “Worldschooling,” which is based on experiential learning, is leading them to places like Vietnam, where they find a more affordable lifestyle.
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In Abéché, ADETIC concluded the 2026 edition of the “Digital Vacations” program by presenting certificates to young people who had received training in computer science and artificial intelligence.
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On the occasion of the Third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC 3) and the Summit of Coastal Cities and Regions, to be held in Nice in June 2025, the Delegation for Local Authorities and Civil Society (DCTCIV) and its partners officially launched a call for projects to support decentralized cooperation on sustainable coastal development.
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A Look Back at Quilombo Intelligente, a pilot project supported by AUF-Americas as part of the Educational Innovation in the Americas (InnovPed) program.
Read moreIn the wake of the devastating floods and landslides that struck Nepal and China on August 26, the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and our embassy have taken action, working closely with local authorities. There have been a large number of casualties.
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On Monday, September 28, 2026, in Lomé, the Togo AI Lab organized a public testing session for its “Voix du Togo” platform, designed to provide access to public services in local languages. This pilot phase aims to gather feedback from users with diverse profiles in order to evaluate the platform’s usability, the ease of understanding its features, and its suitability for the needs of future users.
Read moreAt a time when official development assistance is experiencing an unprecedented decline, decentralized cooperation is a key lever for achieving concrete results on the ground. The new OECD report, titled *The Impact of Decentralized Development Cooperation: Driving Local Governance and the SDGs*, analyzes the contribution of local and regional governments to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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From September 22 to 25, 2026, Hanoi hosted the second gathering of the second cohort of the Educational Leaders Program, led by the AUF at the Collège international de Villers-Cotterêts. Twenty-two educators from eight countries spent four days there observing educational practices in Vietnam and analyzing how these could benefit their own systems.
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To mark the start of the school year, the Banque Postale du Congo (BPC) distributed school supplies and food on September 27 in Brazzaville to 137 children from various care facilities. The initiative, organized as part of the “Solidarity Caravan” in partnership with the association Synergie de soutien des couches fragiles (2SCF), aims to support vulnerable children and help ensure they can attend school under better conditions.
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Clichy-la-Garenne is supporting the Pink October campaign with a charity event: join us for the big dictation on Sunday, October 18, 2026, at City Hall.
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The Confederation plans to increase funding for the integration of foreign nationals. It has allocated 334.5 million francs for the 2028–2032 period, compared with 250 million francs during the previous period.
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Just one year after the celebration in Luzy marking the 40th anniversary of the town twinning, members of the two committees—the French and German ones—met in Emmelshausen, Germany, on the weekend of Sunday, August 30, during the traditional wine fair.
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The Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils (VACS) project, which has developed climate-smart varieties of improved millet, cowpea, peanuts, and sorghum, could serve as a model on a national scale, said Bassirou Sine, director of the Senegalese Institute for Agricultural Research (ISRA) in Bambey, speaking in Thiès.
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Évelyne Desmarais chairs ADAMA27, an association of former mayors and deputy mayors from the Eure department. She hopes to revitalize this association, which supports new mayors.
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The Ministry of Family and Social Action (MFAS) received 1,422 Equal Opportunity Cards from the National Agency for Personal Identification (ANIP) for people with disabilities. A symbolic handover ceremony took place on Friday, September 18, 2026, at the Cité ministérielle in Cotonou, marking a new milestone in the distribution process underway across the country. With this new batch, a total of 6,140 cards have now been received, of which 4,718 were already distributed between 2024 and 2025.
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Received by the Executive Director of Apex-Mali, Massoudou Cissé, a delegation from the Association of Private Press Publishers (ASSEP), led by its president, Boubacar Yalkoué, proposed the establishment of a formal framework for collaboration to support the promotion of Mali as a tourist destination.
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The Potigny-Banwell (Somerset) sister city committee has been in existence for more than twenty-five years. Martine Hébert-Lefèvre, the committee’s president, held a meeting on Thursday to discuss the committee’s upcoming activities, including English classes.
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In Togo, the government’s goal of achieving universal access to safe drinking water by 2030 has taken a new step forward with the commissioning of 305 boreholes equipped with hand-pump systems in the Plateaux region. These boreholes, constructed as part of the “Village Water Supply Project for 300 Boreholes,” with Chinese funding, were handed over to the beneficiaries on Friday, September 18, 2026, in a symbolic ceremony held in Abalo Copé, in the Wahala canton of Haho Prefecture.
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The partnership agreement signed on September 11 in Brazzaville between the Women’s Advisory Council (CCF) and the Hoz Fablab training center for new technologies will provide Congolese female students with training in digital careers.
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