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Kenya | Tanzania
Society | Human rights | Labour
Nairobi, Dar es Salaam attracting trafficked children

afrol News, 12 October - A new study into human trafficking trends in East Africa reveals that the capitals of Kenya and Tanzania are the region's main magnet for children and adults tricked into exploitative labour including prostitution.

Mauritius
Economy - Development | Labour
Foreigners working as "modern slaves" in Mauritius

afrol News / IPS, 5 July - Workers from Bangladesh have helped Mauritius to achieve the economic success and world market share that the Indian Ocean island state boasts about. But many live and work in conditions described as akin to "modern slavery", apart from facing discrimination, the denial of labour rights and even violence.

Liberia | World
Society | Labour
Trafficked Bangladeshis return home from Liberia

afrol News, 4 June - From South Asia's poorhouse Bangladesh, 39 workers in November were tricked to pay large sums to travel to West African poorhouse Liberia, where they were promised well paid jobs. Finally, they are home in Dhaka.

Mali | Côte d'Ivoire
Society | Agriculture - Nutrition | Labour
Reporter offered child slaves

afrol News, 17 March - Working undercover to reveal the extent of forced child labour in Côte d'Ivoire's cocoa industry, a Danish journalist openly was offered to buy as many children as he wanted for €200 each in Mali.

South Africa
Labour | Politics | Economy - Development | Society
SA’s unemployment still above 24 percent

afrol News, 10 February - South Africa’s unemployment rate has remained unchanged, according to new figures released by Statistics South Africa yesterday.

» 14.12.2009 - Campaign to end abuse on migrants to be launched
» 10.12.2009 - Couple charged with human trafficking for exploiting Swaziland woman
» 08.12.2009 - Union strike could leave fuel stations empty
» 05.11.2009 - Algeria "not affected by global crisis"
» 12.10.2009 - Formalise employment for greater trade benefits, ILO/WTO study
» 29.09.2009 - $59 million awarded to eliminate exploitive child labour in 19 countries
» 12.08.2009 - COSATU express shock on output drop
» 28.07.2009 - New offer to avert further municipal strike
» 25.02.2009 - Zim teachers end year long strike
» 11.02.2009 - Nigeria cuts political office bearers' salaries
» 10.10.2008 - US awards $4.7 million to strengthen workers' benefits of international trade
» 02.10.2008 - US awards $58 million to eliminate exploitive child labour around world
» 16.07.2008 - South African gold miners down tools
» 10.06.2008 - Nigeria gears to lead steel production in Africa
» 30.04.2008 - Morocco's fatal blaze blamed on greed
» 28.01.2008 - Ghana shuns labour standard
» 29.03.2007 - Unemployment dropping in South Africa
» 04.01.2007 - Mauritius expects less unemployed in 2007
» 03.01.2007 - Zimbabwe police nabs 20,000 illegal miners
» 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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