In Sarh, a new human-powered pump improves access to drinking water for pupils at the girls' secondary school, transforming their learning conditions.

On an oppressively hot Sunday in April, volunteers from the Association des repas solidaires in the Thiên Truong district of Ninh Binh province were busy providing hot meals to patients in the early hours of the morning.

Teams from La Poste's sites in Gonesse, Eragny, Domont and Groslay rallied to collect food for the Restos du Cœur.

Benin continues its dynamic transformation in the cultural sector. This was the conclusion of the inaugural conference held on Tuesday April 28, 2026 in Cotonou, as part of the first session of the National Commission for the Protection of Cultural Heritage (CNPPC). It was an opportunity for institutional executives, experts and academics involved in safeguarding and promoting cultural heritage to take stock of the progress made, and to look ahead to the challenges and prospects for the future.

Given the fossils already discovered in the cave, including a 120,000-year-old jawbone, there is little doubt that Neanderthal DNA is present at Scladina. Researchers from Leipzig's Max Planck Institute, the world's leading institute in this field, are in Andenne this week to go over the cave with a fine-tooth comb.

Anatole Mouandza, sub-prefect of the Kellé district in the Cuvette-Ouest department, has just handed over the ambulance for the local Centre de Santé Intégré (CSI) to its beneficiaries.

Teams from La Poste's sites in Gonesse, Eragny, Domont and Groslay rallied to collect food for the Restos du Cœur.

Young people talking to other young people about the risks of partying - that's the idea behind "Safe Party". This summer, they will be setting up booths at several of the region's ducasses and festivals. The aim is to provide a non-judgmental approach to the dangers of alcohol consumption and sexual relations at parties.

The City of Ottawa has developed a strategy to deal with the persistent problem of homeless families, a situation that has led hundreds of them to sleep in motels for months on end over the past year.

The small northern German town of Kosel, in the province of Schleswig-Holstein, has been twinned with the town of La Mézière since 1986.

In Togo, the Plateforme industrielle d'Adétikopé (PIA) is pursuing its strategy of regional openness. This week, the site welcomed a delegation from the Port Autonome de Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo, on a working visit focused on logistical and industrial synergies.

On Friday in Tangier, some 20 young people took part in a training workshop organized by the Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima Regional Human Rights Commission (CRDH), with the aim of widening the circle of young people committed to abolishing the death penalty.

Mayor since the last municipal elections, Stéphane Boury is also president of the twinning association linking the towns of Clavier in Belgium and Saint-Pierre-Canivet.

As part of the EUSEEDS project (Enable, Upgrade and Spread Employability, Entrepreneurship and Digital Skills), co-funded by the European Union as part of the Interreg NEXT MED program, Aix-Marseille Université (France) has launched a series of online training sessions designed to support the 24 beneficiary universities in the creation and development of their employability centers.

SMEs play a central role but face many risks in digital transformation. Strengthening cybersecurity and a supportive ecosystem is essential to ensure sustainable development in the digital age.

A return to agriculture is no longer a slogan in Wendou Bosséabé, a village in the commune of Orkadiéré, in the Matam region (north), where the availability of a modern irrigation system has sparked renewed interest in working the land, very often coupled with livestock farming.

The first Swiss asparagus has been harvested this spring, according to the Union maraîchère suisse, and is currently sold mainly through direct channels.

Québec confirms its intention to create Côte-de-Charlevoix National Park. The Ministry of the Environment launched a public consultation process on April 18.

Under Bagré's relentless April sun, between the dust of the road and the pale reflections of the irrigation canals, young agro-entrepreneurs are ploughing their furrows. Boots on their feet for some, hands plunged into piles of freshly harvested onions for others, many of these students have swapped the lecture halls for the fields. They were the first to experiment with an incubation program that attracted many students from the regions in various fields. Their challenge? To make agriculture a path to excellence and contribute in their own way to food self-sufficiency in Burkina Faso.

The year 2026 will be marked by a number of international events focusing on water-related issues and the fight against the consequences of climate change, such as the High-Level Political Forum, the Desertification COP and the United Nations Water Conference.