You're not sure why they didn't say, "Someone came to work today...

You're not sure why they didn't say, "Someone came to work today and died, they won't be going home to their family. We want to assure shareholders that despite this tragedy, work has carried on as normal and production will not be impacted."?

You, and the 5 that upvoted, are fools. Cudos to the company in NOT combining a statement about a death and production and in fact for to refering to Ms Kouinouan by name - you know, like she is a real human.

"Or, they just do things differently in Africa." Or - they are showing some respect which isn't limited to 1st world Western countries.