Since 2016, Benin has established itself as a model of responsible digital development in Africa. With this same dynamic in mind, a new era began on Monday November 10, 2025 in Cotonou with the official launch of the "JaimeMaLangue" project.
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Art and design students at CÉGEP de Rivière-du-Loup get creative during AD25 week.
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Every two years, Occitanie Coopération organizes regional meetings on education for global citizenship in an Occitanie school.
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At the end of last week, Togo's Maritime Regional Council adopted a roadmap setting out the directions, priorities and actions to be implemented to boost the region's development over the period 2025-2027. The initiatives identified will require a total of 4 billion FCFA in funding.
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Between September 22 and 28, they visited the famous Tuscan towns of Siena, San Gimignano, Montepulciano, Florence, and Gaeta, in the province of Latina on the Tyrrhenian coast.
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More and more Brussels schools have been awarded the "Eco-Schools" label: there are now 55 of them, including eight that have received this distinction for the first time. This international label rewards schools for their commitment to the climate transition. An essential point: pupils must be fully involved in the reflection and implementation of projects.
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The Association des pays de Blaye et de Bourgogne gathered its members to celebrate a quarter-century of exchanges and conviviality.
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Hélène Boulanger is proud to head the municipality of L'Île-d'Anticosti. Her municipal council is unique in that it is made up entirely of women. On November 2, voters re-elected the mayor and all outgoing councillors.
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As part of its program to train and reintegrate volunteers from Action des Artistes pour le Développement et l'Education aux Droits Humains (AARMOC), a delegation made up of the AARMOC team and sponsored by the deputy mayor of the commune of Koumra, Gnanroy Mbanguidana Grâce, visited the prison.
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On October 29, 2025, some 90 students from AUF-Cambodia member universities took part in a study trip to Kampong Thom province.
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From October 17 to 19, the Three Towns Summit was held, bringing together the elected representatives and twinning associations of Blois, Lewes (UK) and Waldshut-Tiengen (Germany). Chaired by Marc Gricourt and Emily Clarke, Mayor of Lewes, the meeting had three objectives: to take stock of twinning activities in the three towns in 2025, to enable local associations and structures to make contact with the twin towns' delegations present in Blois, and to draw up a program of activities for 2026.
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On Monday, the Office national de l'électricité et de l'eau potable (ONEE) launched the construction of a hybrid power plant with battery storage backed by solar energy and thermal flexibility at the Aousserd Center in the Dakhla-Oued Eddahab region.
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On October 28, at a press conference in Brazzaville, the "Oxygène" association launched a national school competition called "Dis non avec tes mots" (Say no with your words), to give young girls the language skills they need to verbally combat their aggressors.
Read moreLadies and Gentlemen, Please find attached the invitation from Mr Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs, to the Second Conference on Parliamentary Diplomacy and Decentralized Cooperation, to be held at the Quai d'Orsay on Tuesday November 18th at 5.30pm, together with the provisional program.
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The Cégep de Victoriaville's Centre d'innovation sociale en agriculture (CISA) has been awarded $359,990 in funding from the Fonds d'innovation sociale destiné aux collèges et aux communautés (FISCC) to implement its Innover pour la protection et la valorisation de la zone agricole project.
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Mons station, designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, has been included in the list of the world's seven most beautiful stations in 2025, unveiled on Monday by the Prix Versailles. It is included in this prestigious ranking alongside structures built in China, Australia, France and Saudi Arabia.
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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the twinning between Pau and Kofu, Japan, the town is organizing a week dedicated to Japanese culture, from November 1 to 8. An opportunity to meet Japanese people who are delighted to share their art of living.
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The Vietnamese National Committee for Man and the Biosphere (MAB), in coordination with the central province of Khanh Hoa, held a conference on October 3 to review the country's World Network of Biosphere Reserves to 2025 and define activities for the period 2026-2035, in line with the Hangzhou (China) Strategic Action Plan recently adopted by UNESCO.
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In Malmerspach, citizens and elected representatives have joined forces to produce local solar energy. Their objective: to gain autonomy in the face of rising electricity prices. The region's first village power plant is now looking for customers among local businesses.
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On October 7, 2025, the Pontifical Javeriana University and the Réseau international des Chaires Senghor de la Francophonie organized an international and interdisciplinary webinar on the theme of "Plurilingualism and scientific publications in the Americas". The event is part of the work of the Commission Recherche et Valorisation of the Conférence régionale des recteurs (C2R) Amériques de l'AUF.
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The City of Toronto is once again proposing to allow commercial construction in its residential neighbourhoods - a measure that still does not meet with unanimous approval - almost a year after it was referred by City Council.
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An implementation agreement under the "TADARROJ" program for the generalization of apprenticeship training was signed on Wednesday at the Institut National de l'Action Sociale (INAS) in Tangier. The agreement was initialled by the Minister for Economic Inclusion, Small Business, Employment and Skills, Younes Sekkouri, the Minister for Solidarity, Social Inclusion and the Family, Naïma Ben Yahia, and the Director of Entraide Nationale, Khettar El Mojahidi, in the presence of regional officials, economic players and partners from the vocational training ecosystem.
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The town of Ath is attracting more and more tourists, as figures from the Observatoire wallon du tourisme show. In two years, the number of overnight stays in the town of giants has risen by 30%.
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The Rennes Brno twinning committee is organizing several events to mark the anniversary of the rapprochement between the two cities. Here's what's planned.
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The Salon National du Livre (SNL) returns in 2025 with a rich and diversified program that will set Benin's cultural life abuzz. Over a period of 04 days in four cities - Cotonou, Ouidah, Parakou and Abomey - the event will feature a series of activities combining conferences and debates, literary cafés, book signings, workshops, screenings, exhibitions and live performances.
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The 4ᵉ edition of the Forum des Formations et de l'Employabilité Francophones was held on October 08 and 09, 2025 at the Palace of the Republic in Chișinău, creating strong synergies between Moldovan universities members of the AUF, French-speaking companies, as well as many young entrepreneurs and students.
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The municipality of Ayherre welcomed its counterparts from Antzuola, Gipuzkoa, to celebrate over four decades of cross-border friendship and joint projects.
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"The aim of our association is to enable young sportsmen and women to get together every year to practice their respective sports and share great moments during various group activities.
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Municipalities should facilitate access to such housing. Senior citizens' associations believe that access to affordable housing should be a priority for municipalities after next Sunday's elections.
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The vast campaign to distribute school kits to indigenous children in Lékoumou, Nkéni-Alima and Sangha, launched by the non-governmental organization (NGO) Espace Opoko on September 29 to help them get a better start to the school year, came to an end last weekend in the department of Sangha.
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Although a new board was formed on October 7, 2025, the future of the Aunay-Holsworthy twinning committee in Aunay-sur-Odon, Calvados, remains uncertain.
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Spearheaded by Nantes Université and supported by AUF's IntenSciF - Western Europe program, the ProFIB project (International Partnership for the Promotion of Bioethics in the French-speaking World) came to a close in spring 2025 after 18 months of activity, laying the foundations for a French-speaking network of bioethics experts, now ready to work towards an inclusive and collaborative approach to this discipline on an international scale.
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To mark World Encryption Day 2025, the House of Africa association organized a conference-debate at the Sabangali Sub Management Institute on October 21, on the theme of "Youth in Chad and digital security".
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On October 20, 2025, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI) organized the opening ceremony of the first training workshop for Liaison Officers, focusing on diplomatic protocol and customer services, as part of preparations for the 20ᵉ Francophonie Summit that the Kingdom of Cambodia will host in 2026.
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