HONG KONG / AP The Chinese units of a former meat supplier for McDonald’s and KFC China have been fined more than $3.6 million for selling expired meat in a fast food safety scandal that erupted two years ago. It’s the latest fallout for OSI Group after a Shanghai TV station reported in 2014 that the company repackaged old …

  Lagos / AFP Balogun Shakirat woke up with a start at 3:00 am and put on the light in her workshop in a crowded working class district of Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos. In the following three hours, she was able to sew shirts, trousers and a jacket. Then the electricity supply went off again. “No light the whole day …

Monrovia / AFP After almost 200 years of Western influence on their clothes, Liberians are revelling in a style revolution, designing and tailoring their own edgy creations with prints and cuts influenced by their African neighbours. Until 2003, when a peace deal ended 14 years of devastating civil war, tens of thousands of Liberians had been living as refugees in …