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Reckitt, a global leader in health and hygiene, has announced the appointment of Ujunwa Chukwumah as General Manager, West Africa, effective 15 September 2026. Ujunwa brings more than 19 years of commercial and leadership experience across Africa, spanning commercial strategy, business transformation, market development and team leadership Her appointment also marks a leadership milestone, as she is the first Nigerian to assume the position, as well as the first female to do so in the region. She joins Reckitt following senior leadership roles at global organisations including Diageo and Procter & Gamble. Most recently, she served as Commercial Director for…

The qualifiers for the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations begin on Thursday, with 48 countries competing to earn spots in Africa’s biggest football tournament.Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda will cohost AFCON 2027, as the competition returns to East Africa for the first time in 51 years.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listDivided into 12 groups, the teams will be involved in a six-round qualifying process that runs to March next year.Here’s everything to know about AFCON 2027:Which teams are in the AFCON 2027 qualifiers?The draw for the AFCON 2027 qualifiers took place in Cairo, Egypt, in May.The 48 teams competing…

Trump to meet with China’s Xi as Congress mulls bill banning artificial superintelligenceHello and welcome to the US politics live blog.Donald Trump will meet with the Chinese president Xi Jinping later today, ahead of a three-day visit that will undoubtedly see artificial intelligence (AI) high on the agenda.António Guterres, the UN secretary general, has called on the two countries to establish a dialogue on AI similar to the communication between the US and the Soviet Union during the cold war.“Governments with the greatest AI capabilities have the greatest responsibilities to humanity, to establish channels for dialogue, transparency, trust and cooperation,”…

Watching footage of Andy Burnham at the UN general assembly on Tuesday was like watching your child from behind a tree in the playground. Are they making friends? How normal do they seem relative to the average? How will they react when they come into contact with that hulking great child who seems to be running things? Burnham’s first face-to-face with Donald Trump was billed as a knife-edge encounter that, due to the latter’s capriciousness, could go either way. In the event, it was drama-free, leaving observers to ask: was it Burnham’s brilliance or simply the weather in Trump’s head?To…

An ancient wall discovered beneath Paris has been described as a “major breakthrough” by France’s culture ministry, with the archaeological find possibly confirming the location of the city’s original settlement.A roughly 20-metre (65ft) stretch of wall dating from the Gallo-Roman period was discovered in Paris this summer beneath a building on the Île de la Cité, near Notre Dame Cathedral in the heart of the French capital.The stone-and-wood structure is thought to be a fragment of the ramparts of Lutetia – the ancient name for Paris – built by the Gallic Parisii tribe who lived along the River Seine in…

In 2016, a servant of God complained bitterly to me that a friend was pressuring him to purchase a ring, an occultic ring supposedly used to perform miracles. He refused the offer. When I asked him for the price, he told me, and I was stunned. Even more troubling was the fact that this pastor selling the ring belonged to a very prominent church and had been actively marketing this same ring to pastors across many congregations. That is nothing less than wearing Sodom on your fingers and using it to spiritually manipulate and deceive innocent Christians. You cannot end…

On 17 September, an International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Arbitration Tribunal in Paris named Atiku Abubakar, the African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential candidate, in its final award regarding suspicious dealings surrounding the Mambilla Hydroelectric Power Project contract. The tribunal mentioned Atiku, who was Nigeria’s vice president when the contract was awarded to Sunrise Power and Transmission Company Limited, in its findings on the circumstances surrounding the stalled project, expected to boost Nigeria’s electricity generation. Specifically, the tribunal found that Leno Adesanya, the promoter of Sunrise Power and Transmission Company Limited, made a $500,000 payment on 30 January 2003, from the…

A new company has a plan to make the dirty gas turbines powering data centers more efficient: liquid carbon dioxide.American Supercritical came out of stealth Wednesday, announcing $8 million in funding. It wants to retrofit inefficient gas turbines that many data centers rely on for power with units that can generate more power, without adding more emissions (though the gas-fired turbines will continue to emit carbon pollution). The technology can also theoretically be used on a wide variety of energy sources at a time when power demand is skyrocketing.“We want to start with gas turbines but eventually expand beyond that,”…

Qatar’s foreign ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari has told Al Jazeera his country is determined to make diplomacy work to end the US-Iran conflict. On Tuesday Qatar oversaw the first meeting between the US and Iran in months, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.Published On 23 Sep 202623 Sep 2026Share Qatar on mediation efforts: ‘We can’t let diplomacy fail’ on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

The Nature Friendly Farming Network (NFFN), which helps farmers to manage land in environmentally-friendly ways, criticised the “frantic scramble” and said farmers had “faced a desperate race against time” to secure their funding agreements.Cambridgeshire arable farmer Martin Lines, who leads the NFFN, said: “This entire SFI system, with windows opening and closing within a few hours, isn’t fit for purpose. “We need to find a better way based on continuous, whole-farm agreements, not doors that slam shut on day one because the money has already gone.”He pointed out that after years of extreme weather, many farmers were relying on the…