France/Cabourg and Spa in Belgium celebrate 50 years of twinning

On Friday May 1, 2026, Mayor Emmanuel Porcq of Cabourg (Calvados) and Mayor Nicolas Tefnin of the Belgian town of Spa once again signed the twinning charter.

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Canada/Caplan to modernize its sports center

The Municipality of Caplan plans to invest some $2 million to bring the John Lapointe Sports Center up to date.

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Togo/Food security: a project to boost coconut oil production launched in Aného

In Togo, the project entitled "Reinforcement des capacités des groupements des femmes productrices d'huile de coco des préfectures des Lacs, Vo, Bas-Mono et Golfe" was officially launched on Tuesday May 5, 2026 in Aného. The initiative is funded by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF), through the Togo Coastal Communities Climate Resilience Project (R4C-Togo).

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France/France Alzheimer Manche: "Strengthening our presence and partnerships".

Between sporting challenges, outings for carers and new partnerships: France Alzheimer Manche has an explosive program for some fifty people who attended the general meeting of the France Alzheimer Manche association, founded in 1999 by Renée Meiss, a Coutançaise who died recently, at Coutances town hall on Tuesday.

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27th Rencontres Internationales d'Urbanisme de l'APÉRAU

The Association pour la Promotion de l'Enseignement et de la Recherche en Aménagement et Urbanisme (APERAU), a member network of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), is organizing the 27th Rencontres Internationales d'Urbanisme (RIU), from June 9 to 11, 2026, in France.

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France/A rich month of May in Angers, celebrating Europe and ten years of twinning with the Polish town of Torun

This year, 2026, Angers (Maine-et-Loire) celebrates the creation of Europe on May 9, 1950, with a series of events to mark ten years of twinning with Poland.

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Burkina Faso/Clap de fin pour le projet Baara : Des parcours de jeunes transformés grâce à l'insertion professionnelle

The Baara project has come to an end after several years of implementation devoted to professional integration and skills enhancement for young people.

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Belgium/Bikes in Brussels Fund awards nearly 1.5 million euros to 13 cycling projects

The Bikes in Brussels Fund has granted further support of almost 1.5 million euros to 13 projects for cycling facilities, including schools, associations and public authorities, the King Baudouin Foundation announced on Tuesday.

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Canada/Citizens want Sherbrooke to take care of Boisé-Fabi

Citizens are mobilizing to protect Sherbrooke's Boisé-Fabi. They want the city to develop the area while protecting its biodiversity.

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Congo/Urban sanitation: refuse bins for Brazzaville's CSIs

On May 2, to mark the first Saturday of the month, Juste Désiré Mondelé, Minister of Urban Sanitation, Local Development and Road Maintenance, presented garbage bins to a number of Brazzaville's Centres de Santé Intégré (CSI).

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France/ Saint-Méen-le-Grand. They are organizing a cinema-twinning evening on Wednesday

Le Celtic cinema association has established a partnership with the local twinning committee. As part of its cultural exchanges and international outreach, a special evening of cinema-twinning is being organized this Wednesday," announces Sonia Tissier, the cinema's director.

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France/ Val-d'Oise: La Poste and Restos du Cœur join forces to help the underprivileged

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

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Chad: a new pump to transform school life in Sarh

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

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Vietnam/ Free meals, a symbol of solidarity handed down from generation to generation

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.

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Congo/West Cuvette: the ambulance at the Kellé CSI is rehabilitated

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.

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Belgium/Neanderthal man has certainly left DNA traces in the Scladina cave in Andenne

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.

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Benin/Inaugural conference on the protection of cultural heritage: Benin consolidates its achievements and charts new prospects

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.

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France/Val-d'Oise: La Poste and Restos du Cœur join forces to help the underprivileged

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

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Belgium/"Safe Party": young people trained in harm reduction at parties

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.

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France/La Mézière. Twinning with Kosel goes back forty years

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

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