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).

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".

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.

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.

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.

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).

The Guiche Auchterhouse twinning association is interested in the monumental barn of the Maison Hiriart, which may date back to the 12th century.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).