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X, formerly known as Twitter, has finally paid off the staff it sacked in its African headquarters more than a year after they were laid off, the agency which represents them has said. Most had only been in the job, based in Ghana's capital, Accra, for a few months when the social media platform fired them in November 2022. They had threatened to take X to court for failing to pay the redundancy money they said they were promised. The company has not commented. X has previously said that it had paid ex-employees in full. Elon Musk, who took over the company in 2022, embarked on a massive global cull of employees, sacking more than 6,000 people. He had said he was losing more than $4m (£3.5m) a day. The African contingent, who number fewer than 20, had only just moved int...