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THE Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) warns against dealing with two entities that are operating without a licence and are illegally using the names of well-known companies to attract business. The first calls itself Stanlib Multiple Investment and purports to be affiliated with Stanlib, using the website address https://stanlib. co.page/ to solicit investments. Stanlib says it has no knowledge of Stanlib Multiple Investment and has no association with the company. The second is a group operating on Facebook and WhatsApp claiming to be affiliated with Avbob Mutual Assurance Society. It lures clients to invest with the promise of doubling their money. Avbob has confirmed that the Facebook and WhatsApp profiles do not belong to them or are affiliated with any part of their client offering.

THE UN Children’s Fund (Unicef) said it is “extremely concerned” about the impact of the recent escalation of violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) on the education of hundreds of thousands of children across the country. “Only a few months after returning to school following closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic, children are once again seeing their education interrupted,” Unicef said on Tuesday. | African News Agency (ANA)

ALMOST 2 600 unaccompanied child refugees from Africa arrived in dinghy boats on the shores of the autonomous Spanish territory of Canary Islands last year, CNN reported this week. This number was three times higher than in 2019. Most of these children embark on the perilous journey with strangers. Their parents pay for the boat. For them, it’s best to die trying. | African News Agency (ANA)