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 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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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 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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Created in 1979, the Franco-Belgian twinning committee brings together the communes of Saint-Pierre-Canivet, near Falaise, and Clavier, in the Walloon region of the province of Liège.
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Togo's maritime region is to be equipped with a hospital development plan, as part of a reform of its healthcare system. On Tuesday October 21 and Wednesday October 22, 2025, the Maison des Jeunes et de la Femme in Tsévié hosted a workshop to launch the Hospital Establishment Project (PEH).
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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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"Forest fires have brought us challenges, and we need to see how we can protect our territories, our citizens and urban areas, among others," says Normand Lagrange, Director General of the MRC d'Abitibi-Ouest.
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It's a day of joy and solidarity at Carpe Diem private school. That morning, children's faces were beaming, pots were smoking and hearts were opening. The NGO Dagbémabou, chaired by Maurel Léolus HOUNGBÉDJI, has launched its humanitarian program "A hot meal for a smile", an initiative born of the Beninese diaspora in Belgium, supported by Belgian partners including the city of Verviers. The aim is to offer a hot meal every day to pupils from modest families, and to create a more humane school environment.
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In recent years, France has developed a veritable sports diplomacy, now seen as a fully-fledged tool of our foreign policy. Decentralized cooperation in the field of sport has also grown considerably.
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Both primary schools benefit from the construction of community facilities, including a drinking water borehole at the Boulankio school and the upgrading of the access road to the Ngotoko school. A delegation from La Congolaise des routes (LCR), led by deputy general manager Jacques Almaless, visited both sites on October 15, in the Pool department.
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On July 8, 2025, the AUF organized the "Europe-Africa Scientific Diplomacy" conference in Brussels, bringing together 22 experts, diplomats and academics from European, African and international institutions, with 110 face-to-face participants and over 400 online.
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After a 10-year break, Le Lude's twinning committee with Genazzano is back in action. Marie-Anne Corbel, who took part in the last trip in 2015, is behind it.
Read moreTen years after the twenty-first Conference of the Parties (COP21) and the Paris Agreement, the third United Nations Conference on the Ocean (UNOC3) was held in Nice from June 9 to 13, 2025. In conjunction with this global event, the City of Nice also hosted the Coastal Cities and Regions Summit to put the issue of adaptation and resilience of coastal cities and regions to rising sea levels on the international agenda. The Summit convinced the international community that coastal adaptation could not be envisaged without local authorities.
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The 6th edition of the "Mois du Consommons Local" in the Republic of Benin is now underway. The Minister of Industry and Trade, Madame Alimatou Shadiya ASSOUMAN, officially launched the Marché National d'exposition-vente des produits locaux on Wednesday October 15, 2025, at the Place de l'Étoile Rouge in Cotonou. The event was attended by the Prefect of the Littoral region, Alain OROUNLA, and several other personalities. This initiative is part of the drive to enhance and promote "Made in Benin", in line with the government's vision of boosting consumption of local products.
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For the occasion, thirty-three Brussels museums will open their doors from 7 pm to 1 am this Saturday, October 18. In each of them, emerging artists will take over the space and collections to put on original shows.
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The Lyon metropolitan area, in the Rhône department, is building a business village in Bron-Caravelle to develop local economic activity and create jobs.
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On October 14, the World Health Organization (WHO) Vietnam and Asia Injury Prevention (AIP) launched a partnership to support the Vietnamese government in improving road safety for children and young people.
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The federal, provincial and municipal governments are injecting $7.4 million to help create hundreds of new housing units in Tracadie, New Brunswick.
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Selected as part of AUF Western Europe's IntenSciF 2023 call for projects, the Alliance internationale des universités méditerranéennes francophones - AIME project, coordinated by Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, came to an end this year after 18 months of intense activity.
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A new market was inaugurated in Bengola on Saturday, October 11, 2025, in the commune of Cinkassé 1, thanks to the Cohésion sociale (COSO) project, supported by the Fonds d'appui aux collectivités territoriales (FACT) and USAID. The five-hectare infrastructure is part of a strategy for economic development and community cohesion in northern Togo.
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The general meeting of the Plouigneau-Bedernau twinning committee was held on October 9 in the presence of Christophe Boudrot, deputy in charge of associations, and saw the election of a new board comprising Josiane Salaün, president, Marie-Thérèse Guillou, secretary and Jacqueline Revollet, treasurer.
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Thanks to the support of the Centre d'employabilité Francophone d'Abidjan, the DigiGreen and Agri project reached a major milestone with the organization of two Employability Bootcamp events on October 3 and 4, in Bouaké and San-Pédro.
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In the midst of municipal election campaigns, some Edmontonians are putting the climate issue at the heart of their priorities.
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The Saint-Germain-de-la-Rivière twinning committee held its annual general meeting, providing an opportunity to review the highlights of the year and present future projects.
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