Ugandan pupil wins Africa junior spelling bee contest:
Ugandan pupil wins Africa junior spelling bee contest:
Kampala- Uganda has the best junior speller in Africa, thanks to Promise Kitara, a 13-year-old pupil of Tororo Parents Primary School in Tororo District. After missing the continental spelling bee top gong twice, Kitara stunned the continent on Saturday when he buzzed and dazzled through the competition held in Johannesburg, South Africa, excelling as an individual and making Team Uganda finish second overall in the Africa Spelling Bee Junior category.
It Took Five Decades to Build Steinhoff. It Cratered in Two Days:
Steinhoff International Holdings NV had reached escape velocity from South Africa's deepening economic gloom: A furniture retailer emulating Ikea's model and global ambitions, built by men with their own compelling rags-to-riches stories. Then the debt-fueled rocket stalled and came crashing down.
Steinhoff scandal points to major gaps in stopping unethical corporate behaviour:
'Each time a major scandal surfaces, regulatory gaps are identified and new measures are put in place to plug the apparent holes. But the scandals keep coming.'
South Africa’s ruling party continues voting for new leader:
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Experts call for increased investments to drive immunization:
Immunization experts in Africa have convened in Johannesburg, South Africa, for the Biannual Regional Immunization Technical Advisory Group meeting with a call on African leaders to increase investments in immunization to safeguard lives of children. A statement issued by the RITAG and copied to the Ghana News Agency said while Africa had made significant gains towards increasing access to immunisation in the past few decades, its coverage, measured in percentage of children receiving the third dose of the diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine, has stagnated at 74 per cent in recent years.
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