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...Moritz and Leone had led the firm’s highly successful entry into Asia in the mid-2000s. While Leone remains a Sequoia partner, Moritz gave up active management duties in 2012....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Twentieth Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard by Christopher Wallace. I always loved his art, I just hadn’t realised he was such a complex character....
...Additional help by Katie McMurran, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley....
...Plus, the FT’s Aanu Adeoye explains what’s at stake in Sierra Leone’s election this weekend....
...Among the billionaires working through their rolodexes were Ron Conway, an early investor in Twitter, Google and Facebook and a major backer of Democrat causes, and Doug Leone, a Sequoia Capital partner...
...With more than half of Nigeria’s 220mn population, Africa’s largest, under the age of 19, and 70 per cent below the age of 30, young voters from urban areas came out in large numbers to vote for Peter Obi...
...I like the 2019 painting “Spunky Vibes” by Nigerian contemporary artist Peter Uka....
...Britain should focus on the alliances through which it can still shape things, is Peter Ricketts’ answer; it should recognise the quiet power of diplomacy, is Peter Westmacott’s....
...Peter Karakchiev, Alrosa’s head of international relations, emphasises that this is not laser-marking, cannot be faked or polished out, and needs special equipment to be read....
...England — an agency conceived as the answer to the US’s respected Centers for Disease Control and Prevention when it was founded in 2013 — had distinguished itself in the fight against Ebola in Sierra Leone...
...Mozambique delivered relief supplies during Cyclone Ida earlier this year and Sierra Leone is about to launch its own drone corridor....
...As the title suggests (as well as being a nod to Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time movies), this is a fairytale, and it is both high on nostalgia and giddy with the possibilities of revisionist history....
...For experts such as Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, this new approach could help turn the tide by allowing a vaccination programme in areas where the virus has not...
...That is a long way off the more than 11,000 who died in west Africa from 2014 to 2016 when the disease spread across Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and beyond....
...Set in Sierra Leone and narrated by a trained-killer protagonist all too acutely aware of his own psychopathy, the first novel from journalist Brabazon grounds its more outlandish elements in grim, violent...
...Peter Selama, WHO deputy director-general, said the amount requested, which is expected to cover the next three months, was “relatively small”....
...Joan’s is for her childhood friend Leone — who perhaps has a bit too much Lara Croft about her to be entirely convincing....
...The epidemic in west Africa was centred in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea and lasted more than a year....
...One of the reasons Ebola proved so deadly in west Africa, where it started in 2014, was that it caught health systems – primarily in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone – completely off guard....
...Peter Fowler, Westminster chief executive, sees this as a bellwether for confidence in the region. “There are a lot of positive indicators that things are recovering,” he says....
...Peter Brown, the UK-born founder of PR firm Brown Lloyd James, became a CBE....
...This method had been proven to work in Kosovo and Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, the Kyoto protocol was sorting out climate change. We westerners didn’t seem to have any enemies left....
...Kate Moss and pal Bella Freud, and Charlotte Olympia and Karen Elson, who has travelled to Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast with the charity, are among the collaborators, and 100 per cent of profits (£100 per...
...Barrick has shaken up its top ranks since Mr Thornton, a former Goldman Sachs banker, took over as executive chairman last year from founder Peter Munk....
...The number of new Ebola cases has sharply slowed in Liberia and stabilised in Guinea but remains high in Sierra Leone, which is now the worst-affected country....
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