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Algeria-Morocco: French car maker Renault moves to north Africa
Renault will open a new manufacturing unit in the northern Moroccan city of Tangiers-Méditerranée, where the French group plans to manufacture up to 400,000...
TheLoop21.com’s ‘Economic Survey of Black America’ Finds Overwhelming Majority of African-Americans Believe Creating Jobs is More Important Than Reducing the Deficit
With signs that the worst recession in eighty years may be nearing an end, a panel of more than 3,000 college-educated African-American consumers and...
Egypt: Report Examines Intra-Regional Labour Mobility in the Arab World
IOM and the Arab Labour Organization (ALO) will launch on 19 April at the Arab League a comprehensive and up-to-date report on intra regional...
New Survey of Corporate Hiring: Black and Latino Executives Falling Further Behind
Wesley, Brown & Bartle (WB&B), a four-decade-old national executive search firm with the highest record of management diversity in corporate America, announces survey results...
The Fate of the Watchman in Ghana
The watchman’s job may be among the hardest hit in this era of technology, but for one 32 year old father of five, going...
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...
Zimbabwe economy dip feared as nationwide strike begins
An indefinite strike by Zimbabwe’s entire civil servants has paralyzed operations in schools, hospital and the courts and government departments. Civil servants endorsed the...
Rwanda: Investments produce high job returns
Eleven thousand new jobs have been created in Rwanda as a consequence of the creative investment activities in the country, in 2009. The Rwanda...
African Immigrants in Italy: A shadow of ethnic cleansing?
To give a dog a bad name in order to hang it has become synonymous to the plight of African immigrants in Italy. The...
Ghana: Skilled Ghanaians increasing look to countries outside of Africa for work
A migration profile of Ghana released today by IOM finds that a combination of a growing and increasingly educated Ghanaian labour force, a lack...
Morocco: Government revises salary scales upwards, unions still dissatisfied
The Moroccan government has initiated talks with various trade unions with the aim of improving the social conditions of workers. Although the government seems...
An entrepreneurial youth and a world without boundaries
A clothing label Angel created, Samata’s Muse, has been featured in newspapers, Web articles and magazines. Her books and TV appearances have made her...
South Africa Home Affairs Minister clueless over immigration figures
South African government has no clue as to the number of illegal immigrants residing in the country, a cabinet minister revealed. Home Affairs Minister...
Zimbabwe: Lawyers earn “starving wages”; Teachers’ wages to be frozen?
Government lawyers in Zimbabwe are earning “starvation wages” resulting in them compromising their professionalism. Justice Minister, Patrick Chinamasa said on average lawyers are earning...
Zimbabwe: Tendai Biti reveals Mugabe’s monthly salary but his plan backfires
Zimbabwe finance minister Tendai Biti on Wednesday revealed President Robert Mugabe's monthly salary. But this was quickly dismissed by restless teachers as a mere...
Algeria: Xenophobia against Chinese on the rise in Africa
Algerian job seekers have blamed their country's widening unemployment scale on the increasing number of Chinese emigrants living in Algeria and working for meager...
Renewed South African xenophobic violence: Zuma vows crackdown, rioters unrelenting
Violent protests have erupted in townships across South Africa over poor delivery of basic services and foreigners have again been caught up...
South African Doctors and Bus drivers earn the same
Junior doctors in South Africa are paid as much as bus drivers, the opposition Democratic Alliance said today.
Reports today say Mike Waters, the party's...
Africa’s time bomb: Youth employment and population
The global economic meltdown brings the increasingly problematic issue of unemployment and underemployment of young people in Africa to the fore. Economists from the...
Madagascar: Dictator style court attack amid growing unemployment
President of Madagascar Mr. Andry Rajoelina has resulted to oppression and intimidation of the country’s Judiciary system in order to hold unto power and...
Zimbabwe: Gono grabbing employee property and lying?
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) and its employees are on a collision course after the central bank took cars from the workers and...
Black Journalists Slashed from Newsrooms at Alarming Rate
Newsroom jobs held by black journalists were cut by an alarming 13.5 percent in 2008, making African-Americans the single most targeted group for job...
Nigeria Oil Strike: Distribution of products to be disrupted
Oil groups and oil workers in Nigeria were to begin, Tuesday, an indefinite strike to protest Federal Government's planned deregulation of the oil sector,...
Shell Nigeria lays off thousands amid violent attacks
Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), in Nigeria's Niger Delta region, has began sacking its employees as part of a cost-cutting effort in response to...
Zimbabwean Unionism: Focus on challenges not ratings
Free market sympathisers of the partially ruling Movement for Democratic Change in Zimbabwe must be wondering where to draw the line between constructive...
Ambitious Moroccan project to create 220,000 jobs
A public-private agreement, National Pact for Industrial Emergence, aimed at a capacity building project, was signed signed last week at the historic city of...
Loxion management: hidden source of S. African crime?
In the run-up to South Africa's general elections in April, job creation has become a hot political topic in a country where analysts have...
Zimbabwe civil servants to be paid in Foreign Currency
Thousands of nurses and medical doctors across the country are struggling to open Foreign Currency Accounts (FCAs), after the government indicated that it will...
DRC unemployment rises as mines screech to a halt
In tune with the global economic downturn, reports from Katanga in DR Congo claim that over 200,000 jobs have been amid a collapse in...
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...