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Zimbabwe
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Zim teachers end year long strike

afrol News, 25 February - Zimbabwean teachers have agreed to end a year long strike after the government promised to review salaries. Teachers had demanded to be paid in foreign currency to cope with the country’s hyperinflation currently estimated at 231 million percent.

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Nigeria
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Nigeria cuts political office bearers' salaries

afrol News, 11 February - The Nigerian National Economic Council (NEC) has endorsed a salary cut for all political office bearers. The proposal initiated by the country's president, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, follows the announcement by the Finance minister last week that the country's economy was in trouble.

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World | Tanzania
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US awards $4.7 million to strengthen workers' benefits of international trade

afrol News, 10 October - The United States department of labour has today announced its plan to award US$ 4,610,000 to promote workers rights initiatives and more than US$ 115,000 to study employment effects of trade in services.

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Africa | World
Human rights | Labour
US awards $58 million to eliminate exploitive child labour around world

afrol News, 2 October - A number of sub-Saharan Africa countries will benefit from a huge grant awarded this week by US Department of Labour aimed at fighting exploitative child labour.

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South Africa
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South African gold miners down tools

afrol News, 16 July - Thousands of South African miners went on a one-day strike in three provinces today, to protest hiking electricity, food and fuels costs.

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» 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"
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» 26.03.2004 - Unions welcome growth in employment in South Africa
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» 19.07.2003 - Angola approves new social protection act
» 14.06.2003 - Mauritian export processing zones improving rights
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