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Absa Bank Ghana LTD has announced the appointment of Mr Adolph Kpegah as the Interim Managing Director. Mr Kpegah will hold this interim role until the process and approval of a substantive Managing Director is completed.On 20 September 2023, the bank announced the resignation of its Managing Director, Mrs Abena...
Kenya's parliament has banned the wearing of a suit, named after the late Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda, within the building.Speaker of Parliament Moses Wetangula said Kaunda suits, as well as traditional African clothes, were not welcome.Kenyan President William Ruto often wears them on official occasions.This has made the Kaunda suit...
The Forestry Commission has arrested the Chief of Manse, Nana Kwame Sobre II, and nine other suspects, for engaging in illegal mining. Seven Rapid Response Teams (RRTs) from the Rapid Response Unit (RRU) of the Forestry Commission on Wednesday dawn, carried out a swoop on illegal miners at the Manse...
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who played a pivotal and polarising role in US foreign policy during the Cold War, has died at the age of 100.He served as America's top diplomat and national security adviser during the Nixon and Ford administrations.Despite leaving office in the mid-1970s, he...
It is estimated that one in five girls across the world is married by the age of 18. Even countries that have laws against child marriage sometimes fail to enforce them. But in Malawi some are seeing the first signs of alter.The third time we visited Tamara we were told...
A British-Nigerian man has confessed in a US court to defrauding and stealing more than $6m (pound;4.7m) over seven years.Idris Dayo Mustapha, 33, was part of a hacking ring that infiltrated email and brokerage accounts of US firms between 2011 and 2018, causing losses worth $6m (pound;4.7m), officials said.A dual...
In a profanity-laced outburst, Elon Musk has slammed advertisers that have left X, warning they will kill the social media platform.At an event in New York, he accused companies that have joined an ad boycott of the site formerly known as Twitter of trying to blackmail him."Go [expletive] yourself," the...
A drug which stops HIV from infecting the body has proved to be a highly effective "real-world" preventative treatment, a study has confirmed.The results of the research on 24,000 people taking it across England, have been described as "reassuring".Thousands of people are already taking PrEP through sexual health clinics.HIV charity...
Singapore and Zurich tied for the world's most expensive city this year, followed by Geneva, New York and Hong Kong, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) said on Thursday as it cautioned that the global cost-of-living crisis was not yet over.On average, prices have risen by 7.4% year on year in...
The government and people of Mozambique are excited to play host to Ms. Elcia Grandcourt, the Regional Director for Africa at the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), who is in the Portuguese-speaking African country to grace the 9th edition of Fikani; Mozambiquersquo;s international tourism fair.The highly anticipated travel and...
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