News updates from the African continent for June 13th, 2025:
Teenage Gets Legal Win For Being Tricked Into Moving To Africa
What’s Happening: A teenager who was tricked into going to boarding school in Ghana has won a significant legal victory against his own parents.
The 14-year-old boy was taken from London to Ghana in March 2024 after being told a relative was ill.
His parents wanted to get him out of London as they feared he was being drawn into criminal activity.
The boy remains in Ghana and has been attending a day school there.
His solicitor, James Netto, described the appeal ruling as a “hugely significant” decision that would “resonate across international family law.
Source: BBC News
Ivory Coast Workers say Unilever is Violating Their Union Rights Amid Sale
What’s Happening: Unilever workers in Ivory Coast say the global consumer goods giant is violating their collective bargaining agreement in refusing to ensure severance pay if layoffs take place after the company sells its business there.
British-based Unilever is selling all of its shares in its struggling Ivory Coast unit, which employs some 160 people, to a local consortium of investors led by wholesale distributor Société de Distribution de Toutes Marchandises Côte d’Ivoire (SDTM).
Source: Reuters
Egypt Blocks Activists Aiming to March to Gaza to Draw Attention to Humanitarian Crisis
What’s Happening: Egypt blocked activists planning to take part in a march to Gaza, halting their attempt to reach the border and challenge Israel’s blockade on humanitarian aid to the Palestinian territory.
Background: To draw attention to the humanitarian crisis afflicting people in Gaza, marchers have for months planned to trek about 30 miles (about 50 kilometers) from the city of Arish to Egypt’s border with the enclave on Sunday to “create international moral and media pressure” to open the crossing at Rafah and lift a blockade that has prevented aid from entering.
Source: Associated Press
