In Togo, the 4ᵉ edition of the Semaine de l'Enseignement Technique et de la Formation Professionnelle (ETFP) will be held from February 21 to 28, 2025.

A stronger commitment to youth. In 2024, Ramonville-Saint-Agne stepped up its action for children by joining forces with Unicef. This partnership will continue in 2025 with initiatives to raise awareness and empower young people.

Following the return from vacation, the Ministry of Education has decided to take a series of proactive measures to deal with the upsurge in measles cases in Morocco. In coordination with the Ministry of Health and Social Protection, these actions aim to protect pupils and limit the spread of the virus within schools.

The Red Cross winter emergency shelter on rue de Linthout in Schaerbeek, which opened at the beginning of January, will remain operational in February, the organization announced on Tuesday. Nearly 3,150 overnight stays were offered to homeless people in January.

The government's ambition to make agriculture one of the key sectors for development is being translated into concrete actions in the field by the Fonds National de Développement Agricole (FNDA). On Thursday January 30, 2025 in Bantè, as part of its intervention strategy under windows 1 and 2, the FNDA supported the Coopérative Communale des Etuveuses de Riz (CCER) by equipping it with an optical color sorter with two chutes.

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The VaRRIWA (Valorising Research Results and Innovation in West Africa) project was officially closed this Monday, January 27, 2025, at a ceremony held in Dakar, Senegal. The event was attended by Professor Slim KHALBOUS, Rector of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie, Dr El Hadji Abdourahmane DIOUF, Senegal's Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, Mr Jean-Marc Pisani, European Union Ambassador to Senegal, and Ms Fatou Sagna Sow, Technical Advisor to the Minister of Industry and Trade.

The Municipality of Grande Prairie, in northwestern Alberta, has launched a new strategy to encourage family physicians to settle in the region and make it their home.

On Saturday, managers at the Serigne Saliou Mbacké health center in the Touba 28 district of central Touba took delivery of two new buildings to house a number of services designed to improve health care.

UNFPA's representative in Vietnam, Matt Jackson, affirmed UNFPA's commitment to supporting Vietnam's journey towards sustainable development by harnessing population data, fostering strong partnerships and building resilience in a rapidly changing world, in an interview with the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) on the occasion of the Lunar New Year (Tet).

The North Africa Department of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), in partnership with HEM Business School, is organizing a conference to present the projects selected as part of the "Savoirs Endogènes, Savoirs Contemporains (SESC): de nouvelles alliances pour les Objectifs de Développement Durable (ODD)" program. This event will take place on Thursday, February 13, 2025 at HEM Business School in Rabat.

The Centre for Pathogen Bioinformatics (CPB), inaugurated in Berne, strengthens genomic monitoring of epidemics. It centralizes data, analyzes mutations and supports research.

Le Palais (Morbihan) held its first town council meeting of the year on Thursday January 30, 2025. Heritage preservation and sustainable development were the two major topics on the agenda.

In 2025, the department is proposing a new approach to promote 700 destinations that are more responsible in terms of sustainable development.

Over the next few weeks, firefighters from the Service de protection et d'intervention d'urgence de la Ville de Sorel-Tracy (SPIUST) will be conducting water and ice rescue simulations on the Richelieu and St. Lawrence rivers.

A workshop bringing together NGOs and public authorities was held on January 29 in Brazzaville, at the Centre interdiocésain des œuvres. The aim was to obtain the opinion of public authorities on household waste management policies in the Congo.

The Minister of Livestock and Animal Production, Pr Abderahim Awat Atteib, chaired the validation workshop for Chad's National Policy for the Sustainable Development of Livestock at the National Library on Tuesday January 28, 2025.

Approved by the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), the Clubs Leaders Étudiants Francophones (CLÉF) have taken a major step forward by forming an international association. With over 200 clubs in 60 countries, this student association has become one of the largest in the world.

It's a device that brings back memories for some, but may be completely unknown to younger people: the fax machine. While this document-sending device may have deserted your home, it hasn't totally disappeared from the offices of some administrations.

As part of a joint initiative to strengthen patient safety in Benin, the Health Sector Regulatory Authority (ARS) announces the opening of a training workshop for specialized national trainers. The workshop will take place in Cotonou from January 29 to 31, 2025. This event, supported by the World Health Organization (WHO) office in Cotonou, represents an important step in the establishment of a health ecosystem that complies with the most rigorous safety standards.