The pan-African FEMMPACT program launches its second edition in Togo, Benin and Mauritania, with the ambition of transforming the ideas of women entrepreneurs into viable, competitive projects. This new stage follows on from a successful first phase in Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal.
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Municipal councillors in the MRC des Chenaux are mobilizing to demand more measures from Transport Québec to make Highway 40 between Trois-Rivières and Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade safer and reduce the number of collisions with deer.
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On July 1, 2025, the 3rd edition of the Assises Internationales des Médecines Traditionnelles was held online, bringing together experts and researchers from 12 African, Asian and European countries. Organized by the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie with the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) and Madagascar's Centre National d'Application des Recherches Pharmaceutiques (CNARP), it highlighted the wealth of traditional knowledge and its role in a holistic approach to health.
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36 of the 95 clubs in the town were present at the 3rd edition of the associations forum on Saturday September 13.
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On September 11 in Brazzaville, the non-governmental organization "Observatoire handicap humanité (H20)", headed by Emmanuel Bati, handed out kits to disabled women of all categories, with a view to empowering this category of people involved in small-scale trade.
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Petite-Forêt is gearing up for a major event in 2026, celebrating 50 years of friendship and twinning with the Italian town of Correzzola.
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Clarence-Rockland City Council unanimously adopted a motion Wednesday evening to secure its French-language services.
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Two thousand eight hundred and three vulnerable households in the southern department of Bignona will benefit from the Agricultural Resilience Program (PRA) designed to boost the country's food security, Maïmouna Dièye, Minister for the Family, Social Action and Solidarity, was told on Friday.
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The Coalition burkinabè pour les droits de la femme (CBDF), with the support of the African Women's Development Fund (AWDF), is organizing a training session from September 11 to 12, 2025 in Bobo-Dioulasso, on the theme: "Empowering young girl leaders: from citizen mobilization to building strategic alliances". This initiative is part of the project "Promoting the participation of women and girls in political life in the communes of Bobo-Dioulasso, Koudougou and Manga".
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A delegation of local councillors and residents travelled to Germany last weekend to celebrate 52 years of friendship with music, at the traditional Herbstmesse, a large folk fair.
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The Ministry of National Education and Literacy (MENA) has taken a decisive step towards implementing the recommendations of the États généraux de l'Éducation nationale et de l'Alphabétisation (EGENA), with the signing, on Monday September 1, 2025, of the Contrats d'objectifs et de performance (COP).
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The commune is twinned with the Canadian town of Whitehorse, in tribute to one of its illustrious inhabitants, Robert-William Service, the novelist and poet who died in Lancieux (Côtes-d'Armor).
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Converting containers into temporary housing for the homeless? The idea seemed ambitious a year ago, but now Gatineau's Village Transitiôn is beginning to realize the effect it has on the lives of its residents several months after their arrival. An effect that cities like Montreal and Quebec City are trying to recreate in part.
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On September 3, 2025, the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) Middle East officially launched the EUSEEDS project (Enable, Upgrade and Spread Employability, Entrepreneurship and Digital Skills of the Eastern Mediterranean youth through dedicated university centers), co-financed by the European Union as part of the Interreg NEXT MED program.
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In Brazzaville, the 1st Saturday in September was devoted to the ongoing operation to clean out drains and gutters, sweep arteries, raise awareness among local residents and warn pre-collectors who are in the habit of dumping waste outside transit areas.
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On the occasion of the 26ᵉ anniversary of the Vallet scholarship, celebrated on September 6, around 700 deserving pupils and students from northern Vietnam gathered for the Vallet 2025 scholarship award ceremony in Hanoi. AUF - Asia-Pacific is honored to have been invited to this memorable event and to have had the opportunity to present scholarships to the students.
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The Guiche Auchterhouse twinning association is interested in the monumental barn of the Maison Hiriart, which may date back to the 12th century.
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On Tuesday September 9, 2025 in Djémégni, in the Plateaux region, Togo launched a vast campaign to distribute school kits to over 100,000 girls in 800 localities across the country, at a total estimated cost of 602 million FCFA.
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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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After 25 years of activity, the twinning committee between Quéven and Koro in Mali is to be dissolved. The announcement was made on Saturday, September 6, 2025, in Les Arcs, in the presence of the mayor of Koro, Atimé Djimbé. Founded in 2001 by Alain Duclos, the association has provided considerable assistance to this rural Malian commune, "more than €200,000 in local aid", according to current president Bernard Le Lez.
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On Friday September 5, the Vietnamese ambassador to Austria, Vu Lê Thai Hoàng, paid a courtesy call on Johanna Mikl-Leitner, Governor of Lower Austria, to promote comprehensive cooperation and examine the possibility of establishing twinning relations between localities in the two countries.
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A three-classroom building and a pre-primary school have been officially handed over to the education authorities in Variendougou, sub-prefecture of Nafana, as part of the social cohesion project in the northern regions of the Gulf of Guinea (COSO).
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Mainvilliers. The local economy supports the town in exchange for visibility.
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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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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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