KENYA: One of India’s major chemical companies, Tata Chemicals, has been ordered to leave Kenya after Harare accused it of failing to generate enough benefits for the country.

President William Ruto told the company on Friday to “pack up and leave,” saying it had been exporting soda ash instead of processing the mineral locally to make glass and chemicals.

GERMANY: The board of car maker Volkswagen gave a green light on Friday to axe 50,000 jobs.

It brings the total number of roles the carmaker plans to shed by 2030 to 100,000, as the firm had previously announced 50,000 job losses in March.

UNITED STATES: An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was charged on Thursday with lying about the non-fatal shooting of a Venezuelan migrant in Minnesota.

Christian Castro, who is not yet in custody, faces a six-count federal indictment relating to the shooting of Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna and Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis on 14 January, according to the CBS network.

The Department of Homeland Security initially said Mr Castro fired in self-defence after being attacked by three Venezuelan illegal migrants.

NIGERIA: An attempt to steal oil from a loading vessel in Nigeria’s oil-producing Rivers state left at least 37 people dead, most of them from inhaling toxic fumes, an advocacy group said on Friday.

The Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre said the victims were simultaneously siphoning crude products into their boats from an “illegal tapping point” on Thursday. It caused them to inhale toxic fumes at high pressure, it said.