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afrol News, 5 November - Algeria stands out as one of the countries least affected by the global financial crisis, a new analysis shows. The non-oil sectors of economy are growing by around 9 percent this year, and only low oil prices contribute to a GDP retraction.

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afrol News, 29 September - The US Department of Labour has announced nearly $59 million in grants awarded in the fiscal year 2009 to combat exploitive child labour in 19 countries.

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afrol News, 12 August - The Congress of South African Trade Unions has expressed its horror at today’s 17.1 percent drop in factory output in the year to June 2009, saying this was the latest proof that the country is still mired in a deep recession.

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afrol News, 28 July - The South African Local Government Association (SALGA) has revised upwards its wage increase offer to municipal workers in a bid to end the nationwide strike that started Monday.

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» 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
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» 26.03.2004 - Unions welcome growth in employment in South Africa
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