More than a hundred students from the Institut supérieur de gestion (ISG) at the Université Marien-Ngouabi took part in the first field day in Brazzaville on May 30, with the aim of strengthening ties between participants.
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In Parcé-sur-Sarthe, a new association has been set up to sterilize stray cats. Here's how it works.
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The Togolese government has just launched a census of economic entities involved in the social and solidarity economy (SSE). Spearheaded by the Ministry of Grassroots Development and the Social Solidarity Economy, the operation is designed to map the structures active throughout the country.
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Granby's industrial park now has just one vacant lot. A sign of effervescent economic development, this lack of space is forcing the municipality to reinvent itself to keep pace.
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The Franco-English twinning committee between Baron-sur-Odon (Calvados) and Chittlehampton (England) celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2026. Véronique Collet, president, and Régine Guérin, secretary, take a look back over the association's forty-year history.
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In Togo, the Lacs 1 municipality is tightening the rules governing light commercial construction on its territory. This week in Aného, municipal authorities presented the new models of sheds and stores that will now be authorized in the commune.
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In Cao Bô, in the mountainous province of Tuyên Quang, hundreds of inhabitants benefited for the first time from specialized medical examinations thanks to a free health campaign organized in the heart of isolated villages.
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To celebrate the first anniversary of the twinning between Le Châtelet-en-Brie and Baelen, a tree was planted at a ceremony welcoming the Belgian delegation.
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20 years ago, Saint-Thibault-des-Vignes twinned with the Italian town of Badia Polesine. Meeting on May 20, 2026, their mayors hailed the need to "reach out to one another".
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The mayor of Kaffrine (central France), Abdoulaye Saydou Sow, handed over a total of over 15 million CFA francs on Monday to the players in the popular national championship, commonly known as "Navétaane", in preparation for the national soccer championships scheduled to run from August 8 to 23.
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On the sidelines of a regional conference on child nutrition attended by 22 countries in Lomé, a field visit to the prefecture of Vo on May 12, 2026 highlighted a pilot project that aims to bring together nutrition, vaccination, early stimulation and civil status in a single scheme run by the communes.
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Created in 1986, the Ancinnes (Sarthe) twinning committee is celebrating 40 years of friendship with the municipality of Schwarme, Germany. But the association will soon be mothballed.
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Saint-Médard and Saint-Jean-de-Dieu open the door to a possible municipal merger. The Ministère des Affaires municipales will conduct a feasibility study.
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The locality of Djègbadji, in the commune of Ouidah, hosted the inauguration ceremony for the Xwlajè local iodized salt production unit on Thursday May 21, 2026. Built as part of the Projet de Promotion du Sel Local Iodé (ProSel), this modern infrastructure represents an investment of over 600 million FCFA and marks an important step in the development of the salt industry in Benin.
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The Parthenais-based association Écofestival Ça Marche has presented an encouraging balance sheet and announced the return of the event in September 2026.
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Around a hundred women, including academics, elected representatives, students, entrepreneurs and community activists, gathered on May 12 and 13, 2026 in the auditorium of the National University of Vanuatu (UNV) in Port-Vila, for the first Forum of Influential Women.
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The performing arts will take over Mons' halls, streets, gardens, public squares and emblematic landscapes from July 1 to 10 as part of the Festival au Carré, the event's organizers announced on Wednesday May 20.
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The Train de Charlevoix is internationally recognized as one of the most beautiful train journeys in Canada. The British company Journeyscape has compiled a ranking of the 10 most beautiful scenic rail routes.
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This year, as part of the twinning between Bénodet and Torpoint, an English delegation arrived on Friday May 15, 2026 to meet their Breton counterparts.
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The Agence nationale de l'aquaculture (ANA) has trained around 50 women members of economic interest groups (EIGs) in the central Kaffrine region in fish farming.
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Vietnam will expand the scope of health insurance to include more preventive services and regular check-ups, in line with a recently approved action plan to introduce universal health insurance by 2030.
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Eight months later, Ville de Gatineau is still waiting for Québec to act on its request to submit the hydrogen pipeline project in the Buckingham sector to the Bureau d'audiences publiques sur l'environnement (BAPE).
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The Carentan/Waldfischbach-Burgalben twinning committee welcomes a delegation from the twin town to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the friendship between the two towns.
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On May 7, 2026 in Orléans, the Loiret Departmental Gendarmerie Group (GGD) and the Association des maires et présidents d'intercommunalités du Loiret (AML45) renewed their partnership agreement to strengthen cooperation between local councillors and the Gendarmerie nationale in the service of local communities and the general public.
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The Casablanca-Settat Regional Academy for Education and Training (AREF) organized its first regional forum on the education and training system in Casablanca on Wednesday, under the theme "Casablanca-Settat Region: locomotive of the new Moroccan school, assessment of results and prospective post-2026 challenges". This regional forum is part of the ongoing implementation of the education system reform projects and the provisions of framework law 51.17 on the education, training and scientific research system.
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Although exchanges between young people from Donville-les-Bains (Manche) and Fellering (Haut-Rhin) have ceased, the ties that bind the inhabitants of the two towns 800 km apart remain strong. As proof of this, around fifty Donvillais will be heading for Alsace on Wednesday May 13, 2026.
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On May 9 in Brazzaville, young mothers and women received certificates of completion for their entrepreneurship training, at the end of the first edition of the seminar initiated by the non-governmental organization Consortium panafricain pour la paix, headed by Dr. Ernest Nounga Djomo, and the Centre missionnaire Elim, headed by Bishop Norbert Okana.
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On Friday May 8, 2026, the headquarters of the Société de Mécanisation Agricole (SoNaMa) in Ouidah hosted the official ceremony for the presentation of agricultural equipment to five students in the Agrostudies program. Presided over by the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Mr Gaston Cossi DOSSOUHOUI, this initiative is part of the government's drive to modernize the agricultural sector and promote youth entrepreneurship. It is supported by the Fonds National de Développement Agricole (FNDA), SoNaMa and Swiss Cooperation.
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Saint-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska wants to avoid having its growth curbed. The municipality is preparing to facilitate its long-term real estate development. According to demographic projections, 197 additional housing units will be needed by 2040 to accommodate 361 new residents, representing a population increase of 15.8%.
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In the context of a fundamental and comprehensive reform of education and training, digital transformation is becoming a strategic pillar of Ho Chi Minh City's education sector.
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The Government of Japan and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) presented the results of a project to support intelligent, inclusive and sustainable agriculture, financed to the tune of around 440 million CFA francs, at the Niaguis educational farm (Ziguinchor, south) on Thursday.
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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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The Municipality of Caplan plans to invest some $2 million to bring the John Lapointe Sports Center up to date.
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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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