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Teachers still on strike in Gabon

Teachers still on strike in Gabon

Schools are still empty as teachers all over Gabon have decided to remain on strike until every thing is done to save the crumbling...
Zimbabwe police attack peaceful demonstrators as power-sharing talks begin

Zimbabwe police attack peaceful demonstrators as power-sharing talks begin

Riot police broke up a student demonstration in Harare on Tuesday, injuring at least four people and arresting three. This is the second incident...
Children of Namibian war veterans stage a confused demonstration

Children of Namibian war veterans stage a confused demonstration

Children of Namibian war veterans who have been camping outside the headquarters of the Ministry of Veterans' Affairs say they will not move until...
Kenyan results irretrievably polluted

Kenyan results irretrievably polluted

International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) Report of the Independent Review...
Kenya : Negotiations or not, teachers will go on stike if gov’t fails

Kenya : Negotiations or not, teachers will go on stike if gov’t fails

Kenya's Education Minister, Prof. Sam Ongeri, has invited the Kenyan Union of Post-Primary Teachers (KUPPET) to a round-table negotiation on a harmonization proposal for...
Doctors and teachers go on strike in Zimbabwe

Doctors and teachers go on strike in Zimbabwe

Doctors at Zimbabwe's impoverished government hospitals are on strike over pay and teachers have threatened to also begin a work stoppage. "We are demanding viable...
Demonstrations in Khartoum following ICC indictment

Demonstrations in Khartoum following ICC indictment

More than a thousand angry demonstrators chanting anti-western slogans massed in Khartoum on Thursday in the biggest protest yet against the International Criminal Court’s...
Teachers threaten to embark on indefinite strike if …

Teachers threaten to embark on indefinite strike if …

Zimbabwean teachers are currently earning Z60-billion a month — which crudely translates into the price of 12 tomatoes. So if the illegitimate Robert Mugabe regime...
Defence chief’s confused explanation : shortchange was due to overpayment

Defence chief’s confused explanation : shortchange was due to overpayment

Nigeria's Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Owoye Azazi, has said the country's soldiers serving in peacekeeping missions are not shortchanged as some soldiers...
Fears of fuel-hoarding as fuel tanker drivers strike in Nigeria

Fears of fuel-hoarding as fuel tanker drivers strike in Nigeria

Fuel tanker drivers in Nigeria have embarked on an indefinite strike to press for better pay and work conditions, according to the Secretary of...
Strikes and more strikes as trade unions call for Thabo Mbeki’s resignation over ESKOM affair

Strikes and more strikes as trade unions call for Thabo Mbeki’s resignation over ESKOM affair

South Africa’s powerful labour movement has told Thabo Mbeki and his cabinet ministers to “dismiss themselves” for ignoring Eskom’s warning in the late 1990s...
Rioting Nigerian soldiers explain action ahead of court martial

Rioting Nigerian soldiers explain action ahead of court martial

The Nigerian Army has set up a board of inquiry over last Friday's demonstration by soldiers from the 323 Artillery Regiment in Akure, capital...
Nigerian teachers embark on nationwide strike

Nigerian teachers embark on nationwide strike

Primary and secondary teachers in Nigeria resumed their suspended strike Monday to press for the implementation of a unified salary structure, which they believe...
Incidents in Sidi Ifni raise concern

Incidents in Sidi Ifni raise concern

Human rights organisations and NGOs, including"The Amazigh league of human rights”, are appealing for a serious dialogue between the Moroccan government and unemployed...
Teacher strike in Nigeria to disturb ongoing national examination

Teacher strike in Nigeria to disturb ongoing national examination

A last-minute effort to avert a teachers' strike in Nigeria failed Tuesday, setting the stage for the three-day warning strike to begin Wednesday. Talks between...
Imprisoned ex-opposition rioters become new bone of contention

Imprisoned ex-opposition rioters become new bone of contention

Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Sunday ruled out general amnesty to perpetrators of the post-election violence which rocked the country over disputed presidential elections. Addressing...
Kenya concerned by South African xenophobic and gang attacks

Kenya concerned by South African xenophobic and gang attacks

Kenya has expressed deep concerns over the xenophobic attacks in South Africa and ordered all its nationals in the country to immediately report any...
Arrested demonstrators to face trial in Zimbabwe

Arrested demonstrators to face trial in Zimbabwe

A Zimbabwean court, presided over by Magistrate Rose Dube, Thursday ruled that the embittered two members of Women Of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) arrested last...
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Brotherhood throws weight behind 4 May general strike in Egypt

Egyptian opposition groups expressed excitement on Wednesday after the nation's largest and most popular opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, threw its support behind a...
Nigerian university lecturers go on strike

Nigerian university lecturers go on strike

Nigerian University teachers Monday began a one-week warning strike, to renew their demand for the reinstatement of their sacked 49 colleagues at the University...
Strike disrupts phone and internet services in Nigeria

Strike disrupts phone and internet services in Nigeria

The strike embarked upon this week by workers of the partially privatised Nigeria telecommunications company (NITEL) has disrupted telephone and internet services across the...