Standard Bank Group Ltd. appointed Sim Tshabalala as sole chief executive officer, ending a dual role he shared with Ben Kruger, and making him the first black person to lead Africa’s largest lender independently, reports Bloomberg. Kruger, 58, will step down as joint-CEO immediately and continue as an executive director,
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Zimbabwe's First Lady, Grace Mugabe, has denied assaulting South African model Gabriella Engels with an electric cable in a Johannesburg hotel suite last month, saying an "intoxicated and unhinged" Engels attacked her with a knife. In a previously unreported Aug. 17 deposition seen by Reuters, Mugabe countered 20-year-old Engels' version,
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Amb-designate of Uganda to the DRC, James Mbahimba presented his credentials to President Jospeh Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Saturday September 2nd 2017 at State House, Kinshasa. Amb. Mbahimba was accompanied by his spouse Mrs. Catherinne Mbahimba and the Mission's Minister Counselor Brig. Gen. Julius Chihandae.
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Equity Bank Uganda will be hosting a dinner forum on Friday the 15th of September 2017 at Grange Tower Bridge Hotel 45 Prescot St, London E1 8GP, UK from 6:00 pm. During the dinner, the bank's Managing Director, Samuel Kirubi will be speaking on Investment Opportunities in Uganda and other East African countries. According
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The opposition on Monday re-ignited an unresolved controversial topic when its presidential candidate Raila Odinga claimed that the government administered tetanus vaccine secretly laced with a hormone said to cause infertility in women. The Daily Nation reports that Odinga claimed that the government deliberately sterilised thousands of women and girls
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Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta has said that if his rival, Raila Odinga, is elected president in the re-run election on 17 October, his party, which has a parliamentary majority, will remove him from office. BBC reports that Kenyatta, who was addressing a delegation of party supporters, said (in Swahili): "even
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After you hurt someone’s feelings or do something wrong, it turns out that saying sorry might not be the best solution. In fact, an apology might just add fuel to the fire, a recent study by researchers from Dartmouth College and the University of Texas has found. The Entrepreneur reports
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Government has said it is committed to eliminating fake religious institutions and individuals exploiting believers. Simon Lokodo, the State Minister for Ethics and Integrity, says Government has noted with concern the growing number of the different churches and efforts are being made to regulate them. Lokodo says that Government is
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Poverty and state violence, not religion, are driving young Africans to join militant groups, the United Nations said on Thursday, after interviewing almost 600 recruits. It is easiest for organisations like al-Shabaab and Boko Haram to recruit young people who are unemployed and frustrated about lack of opportunities and services
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Tanzania said on Saturday it planned to nationalise diamonds whose value it put at $29.5 million belonging to a mine majority owned by London-listed Petra Diamonds after it accused the miner of under-declaring its mineral exports. The diamonds were seized at the main airport in Tanzania’s commercial capital
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