Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- Normalcy was gradually returning to Cameroon Friday after a four-day strike called by transporters to protest rising fuel prices. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- The riots which have hit Cameroon since Monday following the strike by taxi drivers have spread to Yaounde, the political capital. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) – Workers of the National- Meteorological and Geophysica l Institute (INMG) of Cape Verde on Wednesday began a 48-hour strike to press de m ands for the payment of their holiday allowances, promotion and advancement in t h eir career as well as a productivity bonus for the year 2007. Full text...

Yaoundé- Cameroon (PANA) -- The strike embarked upon Monday by Cameroon's urban and inter-urban transport unions, to push for lower fuel prices and better working conditions, has crippled transportation in the country as it enters the third day Wednesday, PANA reported here. Full text...

Conakry- Guinea (PANA) -- Guinean labour unions Friday threatened to go on an indefinite strike 10 January to demand respect for the three-party agreement signed 27 January 2007. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Junior and high school teachers in Mali are on a 48-hour strike, starting Tuesday (today), to press for a better welfare. Full text...

Bissau- Guinea Bissau (PANA) -- A 72-hour public transport strike called by the transport union of Guinea Bissau to protest police harassment and mounting of numerous road blocks began on Tuesday crippling urban and inter-city movement of persons and goods. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Teachers in Burundi's secondary public schools started an indefinite strike on Monday to demand a pay rise, a union source said in Bujumbura. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwean workers Wednesday ignored the second and final day of a strike called by the country's biggest labour union in protest against rising economic hardships. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- Contractual health workers in central province of Cameroon, home to capital Yaoundé, entered their second day of strike Tuesday demanding 13 months of unpaid salaries. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Workers in Zimbabwe Tuesday largely ignored a strike call by the country's biggest labour union, which had scheduled a two-day job action to protest against rising economic hardships. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Workers of the Malian Company for the Development of Textiles, CMDT, are to begin a three-day strike Tuesday to press their demand on government to implement a 2003 social plan ahead of the privatisation of the company in 2008, union officials said here Monday. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) Saturday called a two-day national strike for next week to protest at rising economic hardships in the country. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde(PANA) -- Cape Verdean nurses Monday started a two-day strike to press, among other things, for the payment of their allowance arrears. Full text...

Conakry- Guinea (PANA) -- Guinea's main labour unions, which staged a general strike sparking off a major socio-political crisis in January, late Tuesday called upon its affiliates "to be more united and remain vigilant to strengthen democracy, justice and peace in the country". Full text...

Conakry- Guinea (PANA) -- Guinean institutions lack the credibility for negotiations to end the politico-economic crisis that has killed at least 100 civilians in the country in the past month, Mamadou Bah, a spokesperson of the 14 opposition parties backing the labour unions' general strike, said here Saturday. Full text...

Conakry- Guinea (PANA) -- Four people were reported killed in Guinea Saturday during youth riots ahead of a general strike called for Monday to demand for the resignation of President Lansana Conte. Full text...

Conakry- Guinea (PANA) – Guinea's trade unions hav-e promised to resume their indefinite general strike on Monday if a prime minister is not appointed before then, according to a union publication here late Friday. Full text...

Conakry- Guinea (PANA) -- Residents of several poor neighbourhoods in the upper suburb of the Guinean capital, are planning to take to the streets on Friday after Friday prayers of 2p. Full text...

Conakry- Guinea (PANA) – Scores of family members -and sympathisers Tuesday started removing the bodies of demonstrators killed by live bullets fired by Guinean security forces in a bid to quell protests for the ailing President Lansana Conteh to leave power. Full text...

Bissau- Guinea-Bissau (PANA) -- The National Union of Guinea-Bissau's Workers (UNTG) has issued a 72-hour strike, starting Wednesday, the chairman of the Union's grievances commission, Mario Sucuma, declared Tuesday. Full text...

Bissau- Guinea Bissau (PANA) -- The Secretary general of the National Union of Guinean Workers (UNTG), Desejado Lima Da Costa, announced Monday the Union will stage of a 72-hour general strike from 5-7 December over salary arrears. Full text...

Douala- Cameroon (PANA) -- Students in the University of Buea, the administrative centre of the southwestern province, in Cameroon, have since Monday been holding demonstrations both on campus and in the streets of Molyko against alleged inclusion of names of students who did not qualify to study at the newly opened faculty of medicine. Full text...

Bissau- Guinea Bissau (PANA) -- The Secretary General of Guinea-Bissau's Workers Union, Desejado Lima Da Costa, has warned that the trade union federation would go on strike in the "coming days," over non-payment of three-month salary arrears owned government workers. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Hardly a week after over 17,000 students at the University of Dar es Salaam went on the rampage over delayed education loan disbursements and overcrowding in lecture rooms and dormitories, over 20,000 workers in Tanzania's public universities issued a 21-day strike notice Thursday to demand 100 percent pay rise. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- A stand-off between students at the University of Dar es Salaam and the government over higher education loans has paralysed learning at the institution, which faces imminent closure unless the state moves in to defuse escalating tension. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) - – Thousands of pupils and students as well as workers trekked to their various destinations in Freetown on Monday after commercial drivers embarked on an indefinite strike to protest police harassment. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Personnel in Benin's two ministries in charge of education are threatening a renewable two-day strike starting on Tuesday to press demands for better living and working conditions. Full text...

Libreville- Gabon (PANA) -- Trade unions in Gabon on Monday suspended calls for a general strike after the government agreed to open negotiations with trade union leaders and employers. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Taxi and bus drivers in Brazzaville have called off their strike started last Wednesday to allow for negotiations between their unions and government, media reports said here Monday. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- The Union of Railway workers in Mali (SYTRAIL) and the Federation of Transrail-SA workers (FETRAIL) in Senegal have threatened to observe a 72-hour strike beginning 12 July. Full text...

Bissau- Guinea-Bissau (PANA) -- The National Union of Workers of Guinea Bissau (UNTG) Tuesday started a three-day general strike to press the government to pay four months of salary arrears. Full text...

Conakry- Guinea (PANA) -- Government security forces shot dead a student in the central Guinean city of Labe on Monday, while another one died of bullet wounds at hospital, relatives of the deceased told PANA in Conakry. Full text...

Conakry- Guinea (PANA) -- Armed soldiers who stormed school premises in Conakry where various end-of-year exams were planned, fired several shots in the air to disperse angry who could not enter their classrooms. Full text...

Conakry- Guinea (PANA) – Leading trade unions in G-uinea have decided to continue their general strike started last Thursday throughout the country to protest the recent hike in fuel prices and its attendant impact on living conditions. Full text...

Conakry- Guinea (PANA) -- A strike launched Thursday by the Inter- Union here was largely adhered to by residents and motorists, leaving the streets of the Guinean capital virtually lack of normal activities. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- The Union of Secondary School Contract Teachers (SYPCES) plans to stage a three-day strike starting 17 May to protest the government's failure to meet the teachers' demands for improved working conditions, the Union has announced. Full text...

Conakry- Guinea (PANA) -- The Guinean capital, Conakry, has been virtually paralysed since Monday when the umbrella labour union in the country began a five-day general strike to press demands for "better living conditions for workers". Full text...

Conakry- Guinea (PANA) -- Banks, administrative offices and other services in Conakry, including the private sector, largely remained closed Monday as workers observed a five-day general strike called by the central inter-trade union of Guinea. Full text...

Bissau- Guinea Bissau (PANA) -- Managers of the Electricity and Water Company of Guinea (EAGB) on Friday suspended seven committee members of the firm's trade union until further notice, the secretary for external affairs of the National Union of Guinea Bissau workers (UNTG), Nelson Sano, told a news conference. Full text...

Bangui- Central African Republic (PANA) -- President François Bozizé has urged unions which launched a strike two months ago to demand payment of salary arrears to resume work and avoid chaos in the troubled Central African Republic. Full text...

Bissau- Guinea Bissau (PANA) -- The National Union of Guinea Bissau Workers (UNTG) has called a general strike on 3-5 January to protest a decision by the government to divide civil service working hours into two periods, union secretary general, Desejado Lima da Costa, announced here Wednesday. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- Workers in Burkinabe public and private sectors Thursday began a 72-hour strike called by trade unions to protest against the high cost of living and to press demand for pay rise. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- About 1,000 Mauritanian workers, who have been on strike for several weeks, on Thursday staged a demonstration in the capital, Nouakchott. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Travellers wishing to leave Bujumbura had a rude awakening Monday after finding that not a single bus was available to take them upcountry due to a wild-cat strike declared by owners of public transport vehicles without warning. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- Umbrella and independent trade unions in Burkina Faso on Monday called on workers throughout the country to observer a two-day strike Wednesday and Thursday. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- Nurses in Cape Verde have cancelled their strike planned for 24-25 October after their union concluded an agreement with the health ministry, union sources revealed here Saturday. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- The National Union of Malian Workers Union (UNTM) announced here that its 24-hour warning strike would go ahead on Monday due to a stalemate that occurred late Thursday during negotiations with a government delegation of 12 ministers. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Some 7000 workers in the South African glass industry Friday downed tools to press for a salary increase. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The trade union Solidarity has announced that it will join in Monday's protest against job losses in South Africa. Full text...