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Morocco
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Morocco's fatal blaze blamed on greed

afrol News, 30 April - Unionists have blamed a fatal fire on Morocco's Rosamor Ameublements matress and furniture in Casablanca to employer greed and official negligence. At least 55 industrial workers - including 35 women - died in the fire incident.

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Ghana
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Ghana shuns labour standard

afrol News, 28 January - The government of Ghana has been faulted for breaching the core conventions of the International Labour Organisation it had ratified, a new report issued by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC).

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South Africa
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Unemployment dropping in South Africa

afrol News, 29 March - Finally, unemployment statistics are showing a healthy development in South Africa, where the black majority still is waiting to see social justice after more than a decade of majority rule. Between September 2005 and 2006, the number of unemployed persons dropped from 4.4 million to 4.3 million.

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Mauritius
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Mauritius expects less unemployed in 2007

afrol News, 4 January - Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam expects the national economy to boom this year, following the positive trends in 2006, where the unemployment rate started dropping for the first time in 16 years. In particular the tourism and IT sectors are expected to create thousands of new jobs in Mauritius in 2007.

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Zimbabwe
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Zimbabwe police nabs 20,000 illegal miners

afrol News, 3 January - The police in Zimbabwe today announced that they have arrested at least 19,239 people for their involvement in illegal mining and smuggling of precious minerals from the country. Hazardous artisanal mining has become one of the last possible revenue sources for Zimbabwe's many unemployed.

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» 14.11.2006 - Victoria Falls could lose World Heritage status
» 25.10.2006 - Gambia peanut growers get paid, one year late
» 19.10.2006 - Zim women face tough career or mothering decision
» 13.10.2006 - Privatisation threatens Burkina's small-scale miners
» 04.10.2006 - 87% of young Saharawis want to emigrate
» 04.05.2006 - Corruption, unemployment "destabilising Sierra Leone"
» 10.04.2006 - Unions to increase Congolese women's part-take in politics
» 30.03.2006 - Unions slam SA hi-tech rail for ignoring poor
» 01.06.2005 - Botswana devaluation questioned
» 10.05.2005 - Labour standards remain poor in Nigeria
» 04.04.2005 - Most South African educators dissatisfied with job
» 29.03.2005 - Mauritania ministers get 600 percent pay rise
» 08.03.2005 - Algeria union promotes women's rights
» 08.03.2005 - Malawi's tobacco tenants "suffer horrible abuses"
» 14.02.2005 - Next West African cocoa harvest "without slave labour"
» 09.02.2005 - Child labour affects 72% of Sierra Leone's children
» 07.02.2005 - General strike in Burkina Faso successful
» 26.01.2005 - "Dramatic increase in black affluence" in SA
» 30.11.2004 - Wages raised ahead of Mauritania oil boom
» 20.10.2004 - South Africa unions shocked at leaders' pay hikes
» 06.09.2004 - Burkina Faso hosts AU employment summit
» 01.09.2004 - "Slave conditions" in Namibia's fish industry
» 04.06.2004 - Nigeria govt gets tougher on labour laws
» 28.05.2004 - Brain drain: "Europe poaching African healthcare workers"
» 28.04.2004 - South Africa's women from housework to unemployment queue
» 26.03.2004 - Unions welcome growth in employment in South Africa
» 04.09.2003 - No rights in South African farmlands
» 19.07.2003 - Angola approves new social protection act
» 14.06.2003 - Mauritian export processing zones improving rights
» 13.06.2003 - Malagasy labour rights "inoperative"
» 12.06.2003 - "Slavery and torture" for Mauritanian employees
» 30.05.2003 - South African polemics on minimum wage

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