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Burkina/ Artificial intelligence: Media professionals receive training

The Center of Interdisciplinary Excellence in Artificial Intelligence for Development (CITADEL) presents its activities and achievements to journalists. The aim is to raise its profile and highlight its contributions. Exchanges between CITADEL staff and media representatives will last two days. They began on Monday October 14, 2024, in Koudougou, capital of the Centre-Ouest region.

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Morocco/Guercif province: INDH gives strong impetus to pre-school education

Guercif - In its third phase (2019-2023), the National Initiative for Human Development (INDH) has focused on expanding pre-school education in the province of Guercif, creating and equipping 109 pre-school units for children aged 4 to 6 in the province's various communes.

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Vietnam raises awareness of gender equality and girls' rights

Nearly 300 delegates, including educational leaders, students and representatives of UN bodies, gathered in Vinh Long (South) on October 12 for an event focused on promoting gender equality and girls' rights in Vietnam.

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Congo/ Education: 530 schools to benefit from school canteens this year

On October 10, in Brazzaville, the World Food Programme (WFP) signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Pre-school, Primary and Secondary Education and Literacy, approving the retrocession of twenty-five school canteens to the government to supply five hundred and thirty schools across the country this year.

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France/Comité de jumelage Guerlédan-Sarria: learn Spanish with a new teacher, every Wednesday

On Friday October 11, the Guerlédan-Sarria twinning committee launched the resumption of Spanish courses at the Halles Hervé-Le Lu premises.

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Togo/The CCI-Togo launches a project to support the rice industry

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Togo (CCI-Togo) will support the development of the rice industry through the Projet d'appui à la valorisation du riz togolais (PAVRIT). This project was presented on Thursday, October 10, 2024 in Kpalimé, on the sidelines of the official start of activities for the month of local consumption, will focus on promoting the consumption of local rice.

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Canada/Halifax wants to help the homeless vote in municipal elections

Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) has set up an initiative to help approximately 140 homeless people exercise their right to vote in the October 19 municipal elections.

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Canada/$7.6 million boost for Baie-Saint-Paul: 43 new affordable housing units starting in 2026

Baie-Saint-Paul receives a $7.6 million contribution from Quebec and Ottawa for the construction of three buildings containing 43 new affordable housing units.

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France/Sustainable development: the Centre-Val de Loire has a lot going for it

European Sustainable Development Week is an opportunity to point out that the region is well placed in the fight against inequality and poverty.

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Switzerland/ Well-being at work: Baloise tests an office laughter detector

Concerned about the mental health of Swiss employees, insurer Baloise uses an office laughter detector to test the frequency of laughter. Employees who rarely laugh receive an e-mail with amusing content.

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Burkina Faso/Emergency aid: The Chinese Red Cross trains young people in cardiopulmonary resuscitation techniques

The Chinese Red Cross, in collaboration with the Burkinabe Red Cross, is organizing a training course on resuscitation techniques and emergency management for young people. The training aims to raise awareness of the importance of first aid, but also to train young people to be able to give emergency aid in the event of cardiac arrest. The training takes place this Friday, October 11, 2024 in Ouagadougou.

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Cameroon/Mental health in the Far North of Cameroon

Action contre la Faim, through its Confluences project financed by the Agence Française de Développement, is building the capacity of teams in the Tokombéré health district to use the mhGAP protocol.

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France/The Hauts-de-France region is releasing 235,000 euros to help farmers affected by bluetongue.

At its meeting on Thursday October 3, the regional assembly voted 235,000 euros in aid to support farmers whose herds have been affected by bluetongue.

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Morocco/Errachidia: Interactive workshops on children's rights for schoolchildren

The Drâa-Tafilalet Regional Human Rights Commission (CRDH) organized several interactive workshops for schoolchildren, in conjunction with the 7th edition of the regional book fair (October 7-14).

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Canada/ SADC Arthabaska-Érable invests $1.6 M in the community

On Wednesday, the SADC Arthabaska-Érable held its annual general meeting in Victoriaville, at which the results for 2023-2024 were presented.

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Départements du Nord-Bénin/Integrating nutrition and food security into PDC and PAI: SEs and RDLPs in northern communes receive training

From September 23 to 26, 2024, the Association Nationale des Communes du Bénin (ANCB) and Care International Benin Togo organized a regional workshop in Parakou to popularize and incorporate the Food and Nutrition Security Integration Score (SISAN) into Communal Development Plans and Annual Investment Plans (PAI).

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Belgium/Fighting homelessness: more than 2,200 people helped by the "Housing First" model in Belgium

More than 2,220 people have found stable housing thanks to the "Housing First" model since the first experiments in Belgium in 2013. These were the findings on Thursday of a report by SPP Social Integration on the issue of homelessness in Belgium.

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Canada/New daycare center to open in Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac

By next September, parents in Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac will be able to count on 50 new childcare spaces.

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France/ Twenty years of twinning link Paimpol and Iceland: what is the point of this partnership between communes?

To mark the 20th anniversary of the twinning between Paimpol (Côtes-d'Armor) and Grundarfjörður, Iceland, we take a look at the role of these unusual partnerships between communes.

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Somalia/Rediscovering hope after the floods in Somalia

Nadiifo Abdullahi is overjoyed to see her 8-month-old daughter Falastin reach the milestone of sitting up on her own and trying to crawl. This progress in her daughter's development fills Nadiifo with hope.

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Algeria/ One million olive trees to be planted by the end of 2024

The production and planting program for a million olive trees launched by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development will be completed by the end of 2024, a ministry official said on Wednesday.

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Côte d'Ivoire/Low-cost textbooks available for Tabou sixth graders

Lower-cost textbooks are being made available to sixth-graders at the Lycée moderne Barouadjéhi Valentin in Tabou and the collège privé IGET Banné, as part of the "Bourse nationale du manuel scolaire (BONAMAS)", a loan-rental scheme initiated by the Ivorian government as part of the implementation of the C2D (Contrat de désendettement et de développement) debt reduction and development contract.

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Congo/ Training in new technologies: Enia 2.0 opens its doors in Brazzaville

The Ecole du numérique et de l'intelligence artificielle (Enia 2.0), one of the few schools in the Republic of Congo offering training in artificial intelligence, officially launched its activities on October 7. The 1,500-seat school offers young Congolese the chance to learn and make a career in some of the professions of the future.

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Togo/UNESCO: an innovative educational initiative at the Lycée de Tchitchao wins $100,000!

An educational initiative at the Lycée de Tchitchao (in the Kara region of northern Togo) was recently awarded the UNESCO-Hamdan Prize for Teacher Training on October 4, 2024.

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France/The RCN rallies for Pink October and renews its partnership with the association Les Roses du Gard

This October, Rugby Club Nîmois renews its commitment to the association Les Roses du Gard, dedicated to supporting people affected by cancer.

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Canada/The Plateau-Mont-Royal will have a new noise bylaw in January 2025

The elected representatives of the Plateau-Mont-Royal will table a new version of the noise by-law in January 2025. In the meantime, despite the concerns of many citizens, on Monday evening they ratified a regulatory amendment exempting bars, restaurants and concert halls from certain constraints.

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Morocco/Settat province: INDH boosts access to pre-school education with more than 480 units

Settat - The National Initiative for Human Development (INDH), in its third phase, places particular emphasis on the generalization and promotion of pre-school education, especially in rural areas, contributing to the consolidation and development of the human capital of rising generations.

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Burkina Faso/Maternal and child health: 102 village midwives in Tougan health district receive bicycles and other equipment

The songs and shouts of joy heard in the courtyard of Toma's CELPAC on the afternoon of Wednesday, October 2, 2024, attracted curious onlookers, intrigued by what was going on. As soon as they entered the gate, they saw a group of women dancing and humming local tunes amidst a consignment of new bicycles and other equipment. The joyful ladies were a group of village Accoucheuses (AV) who were expressing their feelings after being provided with the equipment and means of mobility essential to their work in the villages. Some climbed aboard their new mounts to test them out, while others showered blessings on the Red Cross.

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Canada/Moncton City Council adopts Gateway Tower project

The controversial project for two 17-storey towers in Moncton will finally go ahead, following approval by city council.

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Côte d'Ivoire/Breast cancer: the Lycée moderne Dominique Ouattara joins the fight in Séguéla

Sékou Bakayoko, principal of the Lycée moderne Dominique Ouattara in Séguéla, has expressed the school's determination to fight breast cancer by launching an awareness campaign on Monday, October 7, 2024, in collaboration with the school and university health service (SSSU-SAJ).

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France - Lebanon/ NOTE TO LOCAL AUTHORITIES: FACECO - support for the people of Lebanon

The Centre de Crise et de Soutien (CDCS) will shortly be publishing a document summarizing the possibilities of contributing to FACECO to support the people of Lebanon.

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Belgium/Europe-Africa meeting in Brussels

On September 9 and 10, the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) invited representatives of the European Commission's DG RTD, DG INTPA, DG NEAR, DG EMPL and DG EAC to Brussels for discussions with university rectors and presidents from North Africa, West Africa, Central Africa and the Great Lakes, Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean, and Europe, as well as members of its governing bodies.

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Vietnam and France strengthen cooperation in the transport sector

The Vietnamese Minister of Transport, Nguyên Van Thang, and the Executive Director in charge of Geographies at Agence Française de Développement (AFD), Philippe Orliange, have signed a memorandum of understanding for cooperation in the transport sector.

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Canada/Municipal elections: Colchester residents asked to vote on deer hunting

Residents of several areas in the municipality of Colchester, Nova Scotia, will have to vote on a deer hunt in their community during the municipal elections.

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