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Should the board of JPMorgan Chase & Co. force Jamie Dimon, the bank’s chairman and chief executive officer, to give up one of his jobs? Governance watchdogs, shareholder advisory services and public pension funds say yes. Other large shareholders, some prominent academics and the bank say no. The company will reveal May 21 how many shareholders support a proposal to separate the jobs (though the vote is nonbinding).
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East African Breweries Ltd., Kenya’s best-performing stock over the past month, is poised to end a 29 percent rally that valued the nation’s biggest company at double that of the benchmark index, according to Contrarian Investing Kenya Ltd. and technical indicators.
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West Texas Intermediate crude rose on speculation that central banks will bolster stimulus after more Americans than projected filed for unemployment benefits and U.S. consumer prices decreased.
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National Bank of Kenya Ltd. will raise as much as 10 billion shillings ($119 million) in a rights offer to fund an expansion plan as it seeks to quadruple revenue by 2017, Managing Director Munir Sheikh Ahmed said.
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Ali Gumma finally saved enough money to buy a plot of land near Tripoli and was planning to build a family home when he hit a brick wall: He couldn’t find a Libyan bank willing to lend him the money.
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Desert locusts in Israel hatched and formed groups of juveniles known as hoppers for the first time in more than 50 years, the United Nations’ Food & Agriculture Organization reported.
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President Barack Obama said his administration made no attempt to cover up the involvement of terrorists in last year’s deadly attack on a U.S. outpost in Libya, dismissing a congressional inquiry as a “political circus.”
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Fossil fuels typically don’t leap to mind as carbon-cutting alternative energy sources. Yet in Sudan's North Darfur region, liquefied petroleum gas, or LPG, is helping reduce carbon emissions, plus saving lives and money.
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Kalashnikov-bearing men slaughtered at least 26 elephants in the Dzanga Bai World Heritage Site in the Central African Republic on May 6 the WWF said, urging the country to protect the animals after President Francois Bozize was overthrown in March.
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Coffee exports from Uganda, Africa’s second-biggest exporter of the beans, rose year-on-year in April after a post-election dispute was resolved in neighboring Kenya, its gateway to the sea.
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