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A hunger for justice in Western Sahara
Anyone who saw the episode of the BBC documentary Tropic of Cancer last month in which journalist Simon Reeve travelled across Western Sahara would...
Egypt lashes out at U.S. for backing reform
Egyptians arrested after a pro-reform rally have received backing from the United States which is demanding that Egypt respects freedom of expression. The Egyptian...
Mauritania: Marginalised Black populations fight against Arabisation
Hundreds of Black Mauritanian students gathered at the University of Nouakchott Tuesday to express their outrage against what they call a "comprehensive Arabization" of...
Togo: An opposition demonstration violently dispersed
Honouring to an invitation from the Togolese opposition party, Union of Forces for Change (UFC), thousands of candle holding militants gathered Wednesday at the...
Zimbabwe: MDC youth to demonstrate after Zanu-PF youth protest
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC party youth wing is planning nationwide demonstrations aimed at forcing the arrest of people "linked to the nauseating corruption...
Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai warned by Zanu-PF youths
A month long ultimatum has been issued to Prime Minister Morgan
Tsvangirai by Zanu PF youths today for him to call for the removal of...
Eritrea sanctions get mixed reactions
The Eritrean Diaspora has expressed its anger over a recently imposed United Nations sanctions that seek to penalize the eastern African country for supporting...
Ivory Coast: Anti-president sentiments grow
Protest against the president of Ivory Coast has resulted in the deaths of civilians and the injury of many more. Security forces fired live...
Zimbabwe: Zanu-PF forcing civil servants to strike?
More than 1000 disgruntled Zimbabwe’s state workers took to the streets today in Harare declaring that they are scaling their strike.
State workers are demanding...
Top South Sudan politicians arrested in Khartoum amid threats
The Secretary General of the Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement (SPLM), Pagan Amum, and his deputy for Northern Sudan, Yasir Arman, have been arrested by...
Guinea: Operation “Ghost Country”
New strikes have been planned in Guinea to protest the September 28 massacres. Shortly after a two-day national mourning, the women’s branch of Forces...
Guinea: Junta leader held “hostage” by the military and people
Under pressure from Guineans and the international community to give up his decision to run in the pending January 2010 presidential elections, Captain Dadis...
Guinea military massacre: “This is only the beginning”
As announced, and despite a ban issued by the authorities Sunday, key political and civil society personalities were able to mobilize a large portion...
Western Sahara Campaigners mark International Peace Day in Camden, London, with a demand for the immediate end to torture
To mark Monday's International Peace Day campaigners for a free Western Sahara held meetings in London and a candle-lit vigil calling for an end...
Zimbabwe university students begin class boycotts
More than 200 Zimbabwean university students staged a protest march
late Tuesday in Harare voicing their disquiet over exorbitant tuition fees at state colleges ahead...
Zimbabwe doctor strike ends, sacked GPs to reapply
Zimbabwean doctors who have been on strike for close to a month have
called off their strike, giving the government a one-month ultimatum to increase...
Zimbabwe: Doctors embark on a strike action
Zimbabwean doctors have gone on strike demanding better pay and
working conditions. Dr Brighton Chizhanje, the president of the Hospital Doctors Association said although patients...
Zimbabweans police to allow demonstrations after arresting minister for mobile phone theft
Zimbabweans are now free to protest and police have been instructed not to interfere. Home Affairs minister Giles Mutsekwa on Tuesday told journalists that...
South Africa’s 1st post apartheid recession, a new President and an angry population
Strikes and demonstrations are on the increase in South Africa. After violent demonstrations from township populations, civil servants Tuesday continued demonstrations for a second...
World Cup in danger as stadium constructions halt in South Africa
Construction of South Africa’s 2010 World Cup stadiums grinded to a halt Wednesday morning after building workers embarked on a crippling indefinite strike....
Zimbabwe strike averted, fee cuts and levies introduced
The broke Zimbabwe government has averted a crippling strike by teachers after it persuaded international donors including the United Nations Children's Fund, to fund...
Zimbabwe: School fees slashed amid teachers’ threats
State owned schools in Zimbabwe have been instructed to slash their fees as it struggles with an economic crisis desperately crying out for massive...
Of African women, Greeks, the art of sex and politics
May Day brought with it not only the first whiff of spring but a crop of strikes and protests – the canoodling season and...
Zimbabwe: Another crippling blow for education sector
Zimbabwe's cash-strapped unity government is facing a fresh crisis as teachers have vowed to strike for a “significant improvement” of their allowances when the...
South Africa braces for fuel shortages… Officials cry foul
South Africa service stations could run dry as more than 30,000 allied workers union members prepare to go on strike over a wage dispute.
The...
Devil from within deals heaviest blow to economy yet
Due to the soaring rates of kidnapping, attacks on petroleum workers, and the vandalization of petroleum facilities, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff...
Chadians fume as gas cookers cause havoc after charcoal ban
In Chad's rural population, people can be seen struggling to cook with burning dung, pieces of furniture or pieces of paper. Those who have...
End of Zimbabwe education: broke gov’t angry teachers
Scores of pupils countrywide in Zimbabwe were on Tuesday left stranded after they were turned away by authorities as schools failed to open...
Children of Namibian war veterans issued an ultimatum
The Namibian government has issued an ultimatum to 'children of the liberation struggle' demonstrating outside the Ministry of Veterans' Affairs to pack up...
Workers protest abolishment of Local Gov’ts
Reports that the Local level of governments was on the verge of being abolished has forced Local Government employees to storm the national assembly...