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Chinese tycoon Jack Ma set for two-day Kenya visit next week
Jack Ma, founder and executive chairman of Chinese e-commerce behemoth Alibaba, will be on a two-day visit to Kenya beginning Monday next...

RCS Ottawa
Jul 16, 2017
Threats, bullying, lawsuits: tobacco industry's dirty war for the African market
British American Tobacco (BAT) and other multinational tobacco firms have threatened governments in at least eight countries in Africa...

RCS Ottawa
Jul 16, 2017


Mobile subscriptions are still growing faster in Sub Saharan Africa than anywhere else
After ending 2016 with 420 million unique mobile subscribers, Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to add more than 100 million unique...

RCS Ottawa
Jul 16, 2017


HBO is looking to post-apocalyptic Africa for its next cult classic
Afrofuturism is coming to HBO, thanks in part to Game of Thrones-creator George R. R. Martin. Nigerian-American science-fiction author...

RCS Ottawa
Jul 16, 2017


More than half of the world’s population growth will be in Africa by 2050
By 2050 around 2.2 billion people could be added to the global population and more than half of that growth will occur in Africa. Africa...

RCS Ottawa
Jul 9, 2017


Virtual reality is giving African filmmakers a new way to explore complex narratives
Two women and a man wrangle over fruits in Nairobi Berries, each one emptying the other’s core, while a poetic voice speaks over layered...

RCS Ottawa
Jul 9, 2017


The Great U.S.-Canada Lobster Roll War
ON TUESDAY MORNING, A TEAM of chefs in Shediac, New Brunswick, rose early and headed to a secret-ish location. If all goes well, over the...

RCS Ottawa
Jul 5, 2017
HER MAJESTY WILL HOST THE 2017 QUEEN'S YOUNG LEADERS AWARDS CEREMONY
Thursday 29th June 2017 Her Majesty The Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, accompanied by Prince Harry, will host a ceremony and reception...

RCS Ottawa
Jun 23, 2017


Royal visit to Ottawa on Canada Day includes stops at Shopify, NAC
The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall won't just stop by Parliament Hill for Canada Day celebrations on July 1 — they'll visit...

RCS Ottawa
Jun 20, 2017
How data could change African newsrooms
Last year, the Quartz Africa team applied for the Innovate Africa fund to take Quartz’s chart-building platform, Atlas, to newsrooms,...

RCS Ottawa
Jun 18, 2017


We’d have a better chance of preserving Africa’s dying languages if we learned their history
In 2008, on his first visit to China and India after taking office as prime minister, Britain’s Gordon Brown announced a plan to promote...

RCS Ottawa
Jun 18, 2017


Governor General to Attend the Centennial of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
OTTAWA—His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada, will attend the ceremony...

RCS Ottawa
Jun 12, 2017


A Prayer’s Chance
Samuel Donkoh had just turned ten when he began to slip away. His brother Martin, two years his senior, first realized something was...

RCS Ottawa
Jun 11, 2017
Prince Harry Shares Guilt Of Leaving Afghanistan At Launch Of Sydney's Invictus Games
Prince Harry urged the world to draw strength from the "inspiring" Invictus Games as he paid tribute to victims of the London Bridge...

RCS Ottawa
Jun 8, 2017


Invictus Games 2017: Prince Harry unveils 90-person UK squad to compete in Toronto
Prince Harry has unveiled the 90 competitors who will represent the UK at the Paralympic-style Invictus Games 2017 in Toronto. The squad...

RCS Ottawa
May 30, 2017


Kenya: Standard Gauge Railway Launch Set for May 31
Nairobi — President Uhuru Kenyatta is set to launch the Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) line on May 31 in a ceremony to be...

RCS Ottawa
May 29, 2017


BREAKING: The Queen arrives in Manchester in an unannounced visit
The Queen made an unannounced visit to Manchester on Thursday where she met with doctors and patients who were injured in Monday’s terror...

RCS Ottawa
May 26, 2017


Chelsea Flower Show garden to donate proceeds to Heads Together
For The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry, April seemed to be the month of creating mental health awareness. The three...

RCS Ottawa
May 26, 2017


Prince Harry makes a surprise hospital visit to Ollie and Amelia
Ollie and Amelia's mum, Lucy writes, "Last October Ollie won The most Inspirational Child Award at the Wellchild Awards. At the award...

RCS Ottawa
May 26, 2017


This tech tool is transforming Zambian classrooms in a powerful way
Nancy Chandala, 13, is sitting in a classroom at Joel Community School in rural Zambia, fixated on a small computer screen. “I wish all...

RCS Ottawa
May 26, 2017
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