内容摘要：Huw Edwards, who left the BBC in April 2024 on "medical advice", saw his salary rise by £40,000.

Huw Edwards, who left the BBC in April 2024 on "medical advice", saw his salary rise by £40,000.

In January, she was admitted to hospital for two weeks with double pneumonia. A week after being discharged, she had to return due to blood results so poor that she was told she was at risk of sepsis."This last time, I had some sort of episode that required me to be resuscitated and my youngest [son] saw that - and my husband was there," she said.

She recalled her 14-year-old son asking if she was going to die."Whenever I get ill [my children] get super anxious and a child shouldn't have to feel that."Are you going to die? Are you going to get better this time? They're questions a child shouldn't need to ask," she said.

She added the doctors had been surprised at how many doses of intravenous antibiotics she had needed and for how long, and she was still undergoing tests to determine the cause of the pneumonia.Mrs Sharma also has liver problems and a faulty valve in her heart, which she said was being monitored by an implanted device.

"Other than mild asthma, I didn't have anything before Covid," she said.

The keen kickboxer was used to training several hours a week but said she had not been able to at all in the past year.Mahama noted that his stay in Russia, then part of the Soviet Union, alerted him to "the imperfections of the socialist system".

After returning to Ghana in 1996, Mahama followed his father's footsteps into politics.He was elected as a Member of Parliament for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) party and from there, scaled the political ranks. He zeroed in on the NDC's messaging, taking up roles as the parliamentary spokesperson and minister for communication.

In 13 years, Mahama worked his way up to become vice-president, second-in-command under President John Atta Mills.But after just three years in office, Mills died unexpectedly at the age of 68.