Elon Musk owns Twitter.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The workers Twitter laid off in Africa claim the company "ghosted" them, CNN reported. Twitter cut almost all of its African workforce, based in Ghana, in November after Elon Musk took control. The ex-employees told CNN they still haven't been given the severance pay they were promised. The workers that Twitter laid off in Ghana claim that they've been "ghosted" by Elon Musk's social-media company and haven't received their promised severance pay, CNN reported.After Musk took control of the company in October 2022, he began a series of sweeping layoffs affecting thousands of workers.