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» 04.11.2009 - Swaziland "worst offender on workers' rights"
» 20.10.2009 - Report calls for lifting of restrictions on remittances to Africa
» 12.10.2009 - Formalise employment for greater trade benefits, ILO/WTO study
» 12.08.2009 - COSATU express shock on output drop
» 28.07.2009 - New offer to avert further municipal strike
» 12.05.2009 - Burundi doctors continue strike over pay
» 23.04.2009 - Govt threatens to withhold pay for striking doctors
» 25.02.2009 - Zim teachers end year long strike
» 13.02.2009 - Teachers outraged by caning of colleagues
» 19.01.2009 - Teachers embark on an indefinite strike
» 06.01.2009 - Doctors strike in Lagos leaves patients stranded
» 17.12.2008 - Striking health workers resume duties
» 08.12.2008 - Lesotho union questions govt subsidy of Chinese firm
» 27.11.2008 - Seychelles trims down public service
» 17.11.2008 - SA labour protests Western Sahara inclusion in EU-Morocco deal
» 11.11.2008 - Foreign dominance of Seychelles judiciary increases
» 16.10.2008 - South Africa shuts two of continent largest gold mines
» 10.10.2008 - US awards $4.7 million to strengthen workers' benefits of international trade
» 06.10.2008 - International financial institutions urged to consider poor nations
» 02.10.2008 - US awards $58 million to eliminate exploitive child labour around world
» 03.09.2008 - Battle of flamingo dam - scientists axed
» 13.06.2008 - "Child labour still prevalent in Ghana"
» 30.04.2008 - Morocco's fatal blaze blamed on greed
» 24.04.2008 - Mauritius snubs labour laws
» 28.01.2008 - Ghana shuns labour standard
» 12.12.2007 - Journalists attract solidarity
» 17.07.2007 - Critical lack of health workers in Brazzaville
» 16.07.2007 - Stakeholders bang heads on 'Brain Drain' in Malawi
» 06.06.2007 - Violence against Chad unions "escalates"
» 04.06.2007 - Month-old general strike threatens Chadians
» 01.06.2007 - Niger govt agrees to fight slavery
» 12.05.2007 - Africa mounts work safety campaign
» 29.03.2007 - Unemployment dropping in South Africa
» 20.03.2007 - Gambian President says he hates firing spree
» 23.02.2007 - Mozambique Minister spying on lazy workers
» 22.01.2007 - Libya to lay off 400,000 employees
» 22.01.2007 - Shortage of farm workers in Zimbabwe
» 21.12.2006 - University lecturers in Uganda call off strike
» 20.12.2006 - 400 new doctors to lose jobs in Kenya
» 08.12.2006 - Kenyan parliament doubles President's salary
» 24.11.2006 - Angola to create 217,000 new jobs in fisheries
» 22.11.2006 - Botswana army rolls out carpet for women
» 16.11.2006 - Moroccan professors strike over work conditions
» 13.11.2006 - Fear overcomes Gambian civil servants
» 19.10.2006 - Zim women face tough career or mothering decision
» 13.10.2006 - Privatisation threatens Burkina's small-scale miners
» 28.09.2006 - South Africa cuts unemployment, but too slowly
» 28.09.2006 - "Child labour still widespread in Congo Brazzaville"
» 15.09.2006 - Nigeria oil workers suspend strike
» 27.04.2006 - Mauritius urges laureates to return home
» 05.04.2006 - Djibouti govt continues war on unions
» 04.04.2006 - Health workers turn back on Nigeria
» 21.02.2006 - Djibouti trade union leaders arrested
» 02.12.2005 - "Slavery still casts shadow over Mauritania"
» 10.05.2005 - Labour standards remain poor in Nigeria
» 17.03.2005 - Lesotho reviewing labour code
» 08.03.2005 - Algeria union promotes women's rights
» 08.03.2005 - Malawi's tobacco tenants "suffer horrible abuses"
» 07.03.2005 - Confusion over Niger govt stand on slavery
» 04.03.2005 - Niger govt to free 7,000 slaves
» 17.02.2005 - Unions protest new Djibouti labour code
» 14.02.2005 - Next West African cocoa harvest "without slave labour"
» 09.02.2005 - Child labour affects 72% of Sierra Leone's children
» 03.02.2005 - South Africa union again expelled from Zimbabwe
» 03.01.2005 - Nigeria trade union calls for electoral reforms
» 01.11.2004 - Cape Town registers call centre investment boom
» 11.10.2004 - Nation-wide fuel strike hits Nigeria
» 06.10.2004 - Burundi trade union leaders freed
» 06.09.2004 - Burkina Faso hosts AU employment summit
» 13.08.2004 - Norwegian NGO in Liberia accused of bribery
» 09.08.2004 - Zimbabwe union leaders released on bail
» 12.07.2004 - "Plans to deregister trade union" in Nigeria
» 30.06.2004 - Labour standards violated in Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali
» 04.06.2004 - Nigeria govt gets tougher on labour laws
» 10.05.2004 - Trade union rights "lacking in Rwanda"
» 02.04.2004 - Growing unemployment main South African election issue
» 19.02.2004 - Unions: "No positive results of Ghanaian privatisation"
» 04.02.2004 - The Gambia accused of "core labour rights violations"
» 25.11.2003 - Congolese, Rwandan unions as forerunners of peace
» 19.08.2003 - SA unions see hope for economic recovery
» 23.07.2003 - Trade unions want action on São Tomé, Liberia
» 27.06.2003 - South Africans show solidarity with Zim opposition
» 14.06.2003 - Zambian trade unions increasingly met with violence
» 14.06.2003 - Mauritian export processing zones improving rights
» 13.06.2003 - Malagasy labour rights "inoperative"
» 13.06.2003 - Senegalese govt becomes more anti-trade unionist
» 12.06.2003 - "Slavery and torture" for Mauritanian employees
» 12.06.2003 - Gabonese unionists still discriminated against
» 11.06.2003 - Equatoguinean govt ignores labour rights
» 11.06.2003 - Labour disputes still dominate Central African Republic
» 11.06.2003 - Most Burkinabe still lack right to strike
» 10.06.2003 - Swazi govt remains "fiercely anti-union"
» 10.06.2003 - Chad-Cameroon pipeline cause of labour disputes
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