At the fishing pier in Kafountine, a town located in the northwest of the Bignona department (south), dozens of women carry on—amid the heat, smoke, and fishy odors—a trade that is as grueling as it is essential to the local fishing economy: smoking fish. Thanks to expertise passed down from generation to generation, they derive most of their income from artisanal fish processing, even as they expose themselves to health risks on a daily basis.
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Residents and students in La Pocatière can now take advantage of a bike-sharing service. The project has finally come to fruition. Electric bikes have been available since last week.
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The Locminé Sister City Committee welcomed its counterparts from Medebach for a visit marked by friendship and cultural exchange.
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The Minister of Social Affairs and Humanitarian Action, Lydie Pongault, presided over the ceremony on July 29 at the headquarters of the Single Social Registry in Brazzaville to award certificates of completion to young people who had completed training as part of the Social Protection and Productive Inclusion of Youth (PSIPJ) project.
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Togo is strengthening its system for ensuring the quality of products sold within its borders. Following the Cabinet meeting held on Thursday, July 30, 2026, the government issued a decree establishing a national mechanism to assess the compliance of domestic and imported products before they are placed on the market.
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For nearly twelve years, the Argentré–Romania Association has been participating in a sister-city program with Reviga (Romania). And this year is no exception. From August 26 to 31, 29 Romanians will be hosted by families who were themselves hosted in Reviga in August 2025.
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After three months of pilot operation, the platform has registered more than 14,000 job seekers and more than 5,000 companies offering nearly 300,000 job openings.
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From June 22 to 30, 2026, the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) organized, as part of the ETHISSA project co-funded by the European Union, a training program focused on the digitization of educational programs. This initiative helped strengthen the partner institutions’ skills in designing and implementing online courses in bioethics.
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The Women's Education and Training Center, located in the municipality of Khemis Anjra, in the province of Fahs-Anjra, serves as a model for a community-based social organization dedicated to building women's skills and promoting their socioeconomic empowerment, particularly in rural areas, thanks to support from the National Initiative for Human Development (INDH).
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Marie-Claude Giraud serves as president, alongside Aurélie Torreilles (vice president), Gilles Pouyllau (treasurer), and Michel Borraz (secretary). On this occasion, Jackie Darrax was named an honorary member.
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The 454 Welcome Center, which has been located at St. Alban’s Church in the Côte-de-Sable neighborhood for several decades, is expected to move sometime in the new year.
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Seven young people from Lindenfels spent a week in Moëlan-sur-Mer as part of the annual exchange program between the two towns. Upon their arrival at the Quimperlé train station on Monday, July 20, 2026, the students were met by committee members and then welcomed in Moëlan by their Breton exchange partners and host families.
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The majority of agricultural soils in Benin are becoming increasingly depleted, leading to low agricultural productivity. The project “Sustainable Food Systems for Greater Resilience and Food and Nutritional Security in Benin,” which the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, and Fisheries officially launched on Friday, July 24, 2026, at the Benin Royal Hotel in Cotonou, is designed to provide a sustainable solution to this scourge that is undermining Benin’s agriculture.
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Switzerland is the birthplace of mini-golf: its rules were established here, and a landscape architect from Ticino played a decisive role in standardizing the sport. Today, the Swiss Minigolf Federation has 43 clubs. Here’s the story.
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Ten months after its launch, the regional instant payment platform continues to expand across the WAEMU. While early adoption figures are encouraging, connecting all financial institutions remains a challenge ahead of the September deadline.
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The Musée de la Mémoire Vivante in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli is offering visitors a new exhibition this summer. Titled “Memory: A Collective Heritage,” it has been on display since mid-May and will remain on view for several years.
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The tenth edition of the African Anti-Corruption Day was celebrated on a delayed basis on July 18, at the Sueco Information and Training Center in Pointe-Noire, in the presence of Michel Mombili Aweyambi, secretary general of the High Authority for the Fight Against Corruption (HALC).
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A delegation of eleven residents from Ivenack, Germany, visited the town from Thursday through Sunday, where they were welcomed by the twinning committee to celebrate thirty years of friendship.
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On Friday, the city of Tambacounda (east) hosted the launch ceremony for the fifth edition of the Global Convergence of Struggles for Land, the Global Convergence of Struggles for Land, Water, and Peasant Seeds in West Africa (CGLTE-AO), in the run-up to the World Social Forum, scheduled for August 4–8, 2026, in Cotonou, Benin.
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On July 21, fifty Belgians will take their seats in the VIP section to watch the National Day parade. All have been named BeHeroes 2026. Madeleine, 89, a former nurse with the ONE, will be among those in the VIP section for the July 21 parade. She founded the Collectif Logement – Maison de la Solidarité in Hannut. For more than forty years, this nonprofit organization has been supporting people facing housing difficulties in the Huy-Waremme district.
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To mark the 40th anniversary of the town twinning, visitors from Laichingen, Germany, will gather for the Corso Fleuri, an annual festival in Ducey-les-Chéris. A history told through photographs.
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The Pierre-De Saurel RCM is launching “Visages de Saurel,” a series of 12 podcasts dedicated to the women and men who have shaped the history of the region’s municipalities. Through these profiles, the public is invited to discover the people who have shaped the region’s identity, culture, and development.
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From Saturday, July 11, through Wednesday, July 15, 52 residents of the Guerchais canton hosted 31 Germans as part of the sister-city partnership between the municipality of Brome, Germany, and the town.""" "It’s a young twinning committee, with 23 French and 13 German members under the age of thirty. That really contributes to the group’s energy," explains Anne Geffray, president of the twinning committee.
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On July 19, at the Ho Chi Minh City Workers’ Cultural Palace, the Support Center for Young Workers in the Southern Megacity organized the 2026 edition of the “Ho Chi Minh City Young Workers’ Support Day.”
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Before visiting the Glo-Djigbé Industrial Zone (GDIZ), the highlight of their fact-finding mission to Benin, members of the delegation from the Central African Republic’s Investment and Business Competitiveness for Employment Project (I-COMPETE) undertook a carefully planned tour of several key institutions within Benin’s economic ecosystem.
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The Delegation for Local Governments and Civil Society is pleased to announce that the Atlas of Decentralized Cooperation is now available online again.
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The Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine Intermunicipal Transportation Authority and the Municipality of Maria today launched two new public transit services.
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The pilot project on access to justice for women and vulnerable people was officially launched on July 14 in Brazzaville by Aimé Ange Wilfrid Bininga, Minister of Justice, Human Rights, and the Promotion of Indigenous Peoples.
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On Saturday, Teloché welcomed families from Varrel, a town in the Stuhr district of Germany. This year was special because it marked 50 years of friendship between these two communities.
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Benin’s expertise in agricultural governance continues to make an impact beyond its borders. On Monday, July 13, 2026, the National Chamber of Agriculture of Benin (CNA-B) welcomed a delegation from the Business Investment and Competitiveness Project for Employment (I-COMPETE) from the Central African Republic, which had come to study the factors behind the success of Benin’s cotton sector.
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While waiting for news from its Italian sister organization, Loria, the association organized a trip to Cahors.
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As part of the project “Supporting the Integration of Artificial Intelligence into Higher Education in the Middle East,” implemented by the AUF and funded by the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (France), the Lebanese University is continuing to roll out cascade training for its faculty.
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This is the wonderful surprise in the wake of the 2026 World Cup. On Sunday, during a Cabinet meeting, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune ordered the official launch of a sister-city agreement between the wilaya of Tipaza and the American city of Kansas City. This decision was made in recognition of the exceptional welcome extended to the delegation and supporters of the Fennecs during the sporting event.
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Seven Americans are currently in Cognac as part of an exchange program with the city’s sister city committee. Seven residents of Cognac will be traveling to Texas next weekend.
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