Togo: a project to measure air quality in several cities, including Lomé

On Tuesday April 29, 2025, Togo's National Environmental Management Agency (ANGE) launched the Togo Air Quality Project (PQAT), which aims to measure, analyze and improve air quality in the country's major conurbations, starting with the capital.

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France/Twinning schemes between Marne and Italian towns

A place, an event or a famous person, Grégory Duchatel tells you about the "Treasures of Champagne-Ardenne".

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Canada/Real estate: Quebec City boosts assistance for first-time buyers

Faced with a real estate market in turmoil, the City of Quebec is planning to strike a blow. Its Accès Famille program will soon be enhanced to enable the purchase of more expensive homes, whether new or existing.

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Pan-African Conference 2025: A fourth edition under the banner of digital transition and educational innovation

For its fourth edition, the pan-African conference "L'Afrique scientifique plurilingue" brought together some 100 participants - ministers, university heads, artificial intelligence experts and international partners - around the theme of "Digital transition and educational innovations". Over the course of two days, the debates outlined concrete guidelines for modernizing African higher education and consolidating a scientifically plurilingual Africa.

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Vietnam: when tourism helps preserve wildlife

Vietnam fascinates wildlife lovers young and old. In recent years, nature discovery and wildlife preservation tours have multiplied and diversified in Vietnam's national parks and nature reserves.

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Canada/A new mayor for Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade

The municipality of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade has a new mayor and interim general manager, following the resignation of the mayor.

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France/ This Vendée commune calls on an agricultural college to better manage its trees

The commune of Mouilleron-le-Captif is renewing its partnership with the Lycée Nature to catalogue and better manage its plant heritage.

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Chad/Towards sustainable development: Chad adopts a circular economy strategy

Under the auspices of the Ministry of the Environment, Fisheries and Development, a technical validation workshop for the circular economy process roadmap was held at the Radisson Blu Hotel from February 25 to 26, 2025.

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Madagascar/2nd edition of the Forum of Young Africans on the Blue Economy (FOJAEB) Madagascar proudly takes up the challenge (Curtains fell on the 2nd edition of FOJAEB in Toliara on April 19, 2025).

After three days of intense work featuring panels, round tables, a youth hackathon, children's film screenings, a gala dinner, Best For Africa Awards and a sightseeing tour, the 2nd edition of the Forum des Jeunes Africains sur l'économie bleue (FOJAEB) came to a close on April 19, 2025, with a ceremony as rich in artistic color as the opening.

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Poland/Le Premier Centre Francophone pour l'Employabilité (CEF) opens in Poland!

April 11, 2025 marks an important milestone for Francophones in Central and Eastern Europe: the Polytechnic University of Łódź officially inaugurated the first Francophone Center for Employability (CEF) in Poland, supported by the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF).

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Côte d'Ivoire/Local development: Inauguration of the Bouaké Regional Hospital and Town Hall

Two major ceremonies are scheduled for today, Monday April 28, 2025, in Bouaké. These are the inauguration of the fully renovated and functional Centre hospitalier régional (Chr), and the official handover of the new town hall, an achievement long awaited by the population.

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Belgium/Brussels: giant ducks return to the Vismet ponds

The Vismet ducks are back in the ponds between Quai au Bois à Brûler and Quai aux Briques, the City of Brussels announced on Wednesday. The aim is to attract visitors to the capital's city center with a "convivial program that supports local commerce", the city reminds us.

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France/Twinning in Rennes-le-Château: the friendship forged continues

A two-day visit from the Italians of Rozassa to Rennes-le-Château, this weekend delighted all members of the twinning association of the two towns.

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Belgium/Student kots in a nursing home in Nivelles, an intergenerational project that benefits everyone

Since the inauguration of its extension in 2024, the Nos Tayons residence, which depends on the Nivelles CPAS, has 150 beds instead of 120. The lower floor also houses four private apartments for independent people over the age of seventy.

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France/Two new relay workshops to boost the local economy

On Tuesday April 22, the commune of Vallabrègues hosted a site meeting for the construction of two new 160 m² "ateliers relais".

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Congo/ Entrepreneurship: the Burotop Iris Foundation gives eleven laptops to women with projects

On April 26 in Brazzaville, Issa Attye, Executive Director of the Burotop Iris Foundation, handed over laptops to young women project leaders selected as part of the Femme et Entrepreneuriat Numérique au Congo (FENC) program, who are attending a training course at the digital manufacturing laboratory (Fablab).

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Senegal/Fatick: 314 patients consulted free of charge at Dionewar

Some 314 patients from the Saloum islands were given free consultations in gastrology, ophthalmology, cardiology and general medicine at Dionewar by various medical specialists, APS learned from the organizers on Wednesday.

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Côte d'Ivoire/ Rubber company to train producers in tapping in Aboisso

Société de caoutchouc d'Aboisso (SCA) has announced its intention to train producers in tapping and other rubber production activities, during a tour of several localities from April 23 to 26, 2025.

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Algeria/Signing of three agreements for the care of the elderly

Three agreements were signed in Algiers on Monday, between the National Solidarity, Tourism, Culture and Labor sectors, as part of a drive to improve support and care for the elderly.

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France/A trip of friendship and discovery to celebrate 20 years of twinning between Villeneuve-de-la-Rivière and El Valle

The 20 years of twinning were celebrated in Villeneuve last October, and now a delegation of Villeneuvois, including associations, citizens, elected representatives and members of Villeneuve d'ici et d'ailleurs (VIA), spent a week in Andalusia to celebrate twenty years of friendship and cooperation.

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