The majority of agricultural soils in Benin are becoming increasingly depleted, leading to low agricultural productivity. The project “Sustainable Food Systems for Greater Resilience and Food and Nutritional Security in Benin,” which the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, and Fisheries officially launched on Friday, July 24, 2026, at the Benin Royal Hotel in Cotonou, is designed to provide a sustainable solution to this scourge that is undermining Benin’s agriculture.

Seven young people from Lindenfels spent a week in Moëlan-sur-Mer as part of the annual exchange program between the two towns. Upon their arrival at the Quimperlé train station on Monday, July 20, 2026, the students were met by committee members and then welcomed in Moëlan by their Breton exchange partners and host families.

The 454 Welcome Center, which has been located at St. Alban’s Church in the Côte-de-Sable neighborhood for several decades, is expected to move sometime in the new year.

Switzerland is the birthplace of mini-golf: its rules were established here, and a landscape architect from Ticino played a decisive role in standardizing the sport. Today, the Swiss Minigolf Federation has 43 clubs. Here’s the story.

Ten months after its launch, the regional instant payment platform continues to expand across the WAEMU. While early adoption figures are encouraging, connecting all financial institutions remains a challenge ahead of the September deadline.

The tenth edition of the African Anti-Corruption Day was celebrated on a delayed basis on July 18, at the Sueco Information and Training Center in Pointe-Noire, in the presence of Michel Mombili Aweyambi, secretary general of the High Authority for the Fight Against Corruption (HALC).

The Musée de la Mémoire Vivante in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli is offering visitors a new exhibition this summer. Titled “Memory: A Collective Heritage,” it has been on display since mid-May and will remain on view for several years.

A delegation of eleven residents from Ivenack, Germany, visited the town from Thursday through Sunday, where they were welcomed by the twinning committee to celebrate thirty years of friendship.

On July 21, fifty Belgians will take their seats in the VIP section to watch the National Day parade. All have been named BeHeroes 2026. Madeleine, 89, a former nurse with the ONE, will be among those in the VIP section for the July 21 parade. She founded the Collectif Logement – Maison de la Solidarité in Hannut. For more than forty years, this nonprofit organization has been supporting people facing housing difficulties in the Huy-Waremme district.

On Friday, the city of Tambacounda (east) hosted the launch ceremony for the fifth edition of the Global Convergence of Struggles for Land, the Global Convergence of Struggles for Land, Water, and Peasant Seeds in West Africa (CGLTE-AO), in the run-up to the World Social Forum, scheduled for August 4–8, 2026, in Cotonou, Benin.

To mark the 40th anniversary of the town twinning, visitors from Laichingen, Germany, will gather for the Corso Fleuri, an annual festival in Ducey-les-Chéris. A history told through photographs.

On July 19, at the Ho Chi Minh City Workers’ Cultural Palace, the Support Center for Young Workers in the Southern Megacity organized the 2026 edition of the “Ho Chi Minh City Young Workers’ Support Day.”

From Saturday, July 11, through Wednesday, July 15, 52 residents of the Guerchais canton hosted 31 Germans as part of the sister-city partnership between the municipality of Brome, Germany, and the town.""" "It’s a young twinning committee, with 23 French and 13 German members under the age of thirty. That really contributes to the group’s energy," explains Anne Geffray, president of the twinning committee.

The Pierre-De Saurel RCM is launching “Visages de Saurel,” a series of 12 podcasts dedicated to the women and men who have shaped the history of the region’s municipalities. Through these profiles, the public is invited to discover the people who have shaped the region’s identity, culture, and development.

The Delegation for Local Governments and Civil Society is pleased to announce that the Atlas of Decentralized Cooperation is now available online again.

Before visiting the Glo-Djigbé Industrial Zone (GDIZ), the highlight of their fact-finding mission to Benin, members of the delegation from the Central African Republic’s Investment and Business Competitiveness for Employment Project (I-COMPETE) undertook a carefully planned tour of several key institutions within Benin’s economic ecosystem.

The Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine Intermunicipal Transportation Authority and the Municipality of Maria today launched two new public transit services.

The pilot project on access to justice for women and vulnerable people was officially launched on July 14 in Brazzaville by Aimé Ange Wilfrid Bininga, Minister of Justice, Human Rights, and the Promotion of Indigenous Peoples.

On Saturday, Teloché welcomed families from Varrel, a town in the Stuhr district of Germany. This year was special because it marked 50 years of friendship between these two communities.

As part of the project “Supporting the Integration of Artificial Intelligence into Higher Education in the Middle East,” implemented by the AUF and funded by the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (France), the Lebanese University is continuing to roll out cascade training for its faculty.