{A Rwandan entrepreneur is hoping to open her country's first craft brewery and give most of the jobs there to women, and an Ottawa-area brewery has stepped in to help.} Fina Uwineza, a restaurateur who hails from Kigali, has been spending time at Beau's All Natural Brewing Company in Vankleek Hill, Ont., to learn more […]

{Shot by elephant poachers, the manager of Congo's Garamba National Park asked a ranger for help to bind his leg with a tourniquet to slow blood loss.} "While we were doing this, I could hear another person get hit on our right, and then within a few seconds, also hear another person get hit on […]

{Fulgence Ndagijimana fled Burundi due to civil strife and hostilities.} Fulgence Ndagijimana has found a new home in Saskatoon after he fled his former one in Burundi due to civil strife and hostilities. Ndagijimana explained that "the situation is very difficult." He said over 250,000 Burundian refugees have already left for the neighbouring countries of […]

{For centuries, people have been watching the Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet and pondering its message about people who can't get along.} One place in the world where the play resonates is Rwanda, a country where two decades ago Hutus attacked Tutsis and more than million people died in a genocide. Halifax filmmaker Ben Proudfoot […]

{We're living through one of the most extraordinary events in Earth's history — the start of a new geological epoch, an international group of scientists says. } Welcome to the Anthropocene, everyone. Geological epochs are long periods of time — typically lasting around two million years — separated by major, global changes to the planet, […]