As it does every year, the town of Villers-Bocage is organizing a major festival, "Villers en Fête," featuring a packed program at the start of summer: the event will take place on Saturday, June 27, 2026.
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A student-run business in Baie-Saint-Paul will be designing the sets for Festif! for the second year in a row. In addition to providing services to several local organizations, Techno-Concept encourages students who are behind in their studies to complete their education. And this model is unique in Quebec.
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The Government of Benin is taking a new step forward in its goal of making sports a cornerstone of children’s education and development. Through the Educational and Sports Synergies project, the Ministry of Sports and Civic Engagement, in collaboration with the Ministry of Preschool and Primary Education, organized a large-scale community event on Friday, June 12, 2026, in Akassato, bringing together students from pilot schools.
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Since Thursday, June 11, 2026, the Palais de Lomé has been hosting the inaugural exhibition of the Toyota Tsusho CFAO African Art Award, an event that brings together artists from five African countries in Lomé before a planned tour of Japan and France.
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The Transquadrasolo association organizes the legendary transatlantic sailing race for solo sailors and two-person crews, open only to skippers and crew members over the age of 40. The organization’s headquarters, previously based in Nantes, has just moved to La Turballe.
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High in the High Atlas Mountains, where the peaks reach toward the sky like giant arms sculpted by nature, the small village of Taghia nestles in the heart of a breathtaking landscape. The simplicity of its unadorned architecture and the diversity of its terrain make it one of the top destinations for mountain tourism enthusiasts.
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As part of their partnership to promote the digital transformation of higher education, AUF Asia-Pacific and the University of Social Sciences and Humanities - National University of Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City (USSH-VNUHCM) have launched a support program dedicated to the production of digital teaching resources.
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After half a century of exchanges, the Vallet-Alcester twinning committee will cease operations by the end of 2026. Here are the details.
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On June 8, the Laboratoire national de santé public (LNSP) welcomed central and general managers, healthcare professionals, researchers, teachers and students, as well as journalists, to its premises for an open day, enabling the public to discover its main technical platforms, appreciate its state-of-the-art equipment and learn about its research work and projects.
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The local branch in Saint-André-de-la-Marche, a delegated commune of Sèvremoine (Maine-et-Loire), took stock of the year 2025 on Friday May 29, 2026. More than ever, the association continues to be at the service of local residents, helping them and creating links.
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The acceleration of the ecological and social transition is at the heart of Brussels Environment's 2025 annual report, published on Tuesday. The body highlights the progress made in climate transition, energy renovation, sustainable mobility and biodiversity preservation, with the ambition of moving towards carbon neutrality by 2050.
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More than 500 bags and fragments of plastic bags, 187 cigarette butts, 170 bags of water and over a hundred plastic bottles were collected on Monday on the Virage beach in Dakar, on the initiative of the Association Zéro Déchet Sénégal (AZDS).
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How can we build quality employability paths without establishing a collective dynamic and adopting a common language between support players? In Antananarivo. Objective: structure a community of committed players, capable of proposing concerted responses to the challenges of youth employability.
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"Tonight, we welcome the 40 Germans who have come to Quéven as part of the Amitié Kewenn-BAW twinning (Burgunstadt, Altenkunstadt and Weismain), and who are staying with nine Quéven families. We are also celebrating the 20th anniversary of the signing of the charter between Quéven and the towns of Altenkunstadt and Weismain. The town of Burgunstadt later joined the twinning," explains Brigitte Nicaud.
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In Gaspé, the Town closes its 2025 fiscal year with a surplus of $4.3 million.
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The mayor of Le Mans (Sarthe) has just announced the forthcoming twinning of the town with Maranello (Italy), the historic headquarters of Ferrari.
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Since Wednesday June 03, 2026, the Coopération Communale des Étuveuses de Riz (CCER) in Glazoué has had a unit for processing paddy rice into parboiled rice. A delegation from the Fonds National de Développement Agricole (FNDA), led by Managing Director Nicolas AHOUISSOUSSI, took provisional delivery of the infrastructure.
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In mid-May, on the bangs of the Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi (Kenya), the Rector of the AUF, Prof. Slim Khalbous, was received by the Kenyan Minister for the Environment. The two parties agreed on the principle of a collaboration agreement on climate and forestry issues, mobilizing the expertise of AUF member institutions.
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To combat slum landlords and substandard housing, the City of Mons has published a list of properties that may not be rented out. This tool will soon be used by the local branch of Infor Jeunes, which is often called upon to deal with rental problems.
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At their annual general meeting, the members of the association reaffirmed their support for the projects carried out in Burkina Faso, despite the difficult geopolitical context, while highlighting the success of the Festival des solidarités en Béarn des Gaves.
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On May 19, 2026, Saarland University hosted a study day devoted to the training of entrepreneurs in plurilingual and intercultural contexts, organized as part of the P3E project, supported by the AUF-Western Europe Co//ectif 2024 program.
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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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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