Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria lost 45. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- Lecturers at the Agostinho Neto University of Luanda (UAN) have rejected to end their five-day strike despite calls to do so by UAN deputy rector Domingos Nascimento. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwe's biggest labour union said Friday it plans to call a second national strike to press the government to reverse steep fuel price increases imposed in April. Full text...

Saint Denis- Reunion (PANA) -- Police in Saint Denis clashed Tuesday with demonstrators demanding the withdrawal plans to decentralise the education sector as well as protesting against reforms on retirement. Full text...

Bissau- Guinea Bissau (PANA) -- Workers of the Guinea-Bissau Insurance Company (Guiné-Bis) on Tuesday began their second day of a three-day strike to press for better working conditions, including salary increases. Full text...

Bissau- Guinea Bissau (PANA) -- At least 25 people have died at the national Simon Mendes Hospital here since medical workers began their strike action last month, hospital sources said Monday. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- Workers in the health and financial sectors here began a five-day strike Tuesday called by the Niger Workers Democratic Confederation (CDTN) over wages claims. Full text...

Saint Denis- Reunion (PANA) -- Police in Reunion threw teargas and charged at hundreds of striking teachers in the streets of Saint Denis later Monday afternoon. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The management of Mozambique's troubled natural gas treatment plant at Temane in the southern province of Inhambane, will meet Tuesday to discuss resumption of work, suspended after the death Friday of a worker, the national news agency, AIM Reported Monday. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- One Mozambican worker was killed Friday when police opened fire on a crowd of strikers at a natural gas processing centre under construction at Temane, in the country's southern province, the national news agency (AIM) reported Monday. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- Labour organisations in Burkina Faso have threatened a general nationwide strike 27 May to protest a decree granting interest-free loans to government officials, union sources said Wednesday. Full text...

Libreville- Gabon (PANA) -- Workers at Gabon's Channel 1 public radio and television station (RTG1) Wednesday entered the second day of an "indefinite strike," demanding payment of allowances and better working conditions. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- The Democratic Confederation of Niger Workers (CDTN), one of the country's leading central labour bodies, began a five-day strike Monday, for wage-related demands. Full text...

Sao Tome- Sao Tome and Principe (PANA) -- Classes will resume 12 May at the national high school of Sao Tome and Principe as teachers call off a month-long strike over pay rise, which they finally got. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- Public school teachers in Cameroon have planned to strike on 16 May to demand the release of their colleague, jailed in Yaounde central prison for the death of a student, the Federation of trade unions of the education sector (FECASE) said. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union (ZCTU), the country's biggest labour union, Tuesday called a three-day general strike beginning Wednesday in protest of the government's 300 percent hike in fuel prices. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- The union of Algerian medical professors and doctors has announced an indefinite strike to start on Saturday. Full text...

Bissau- Guinea Bissau (PANA) -- Guinea-Bissau's Catholic youth on Sunday started a three-day hunger strike to protest against the difficult socio-economic and political conditions facing their country under the regime of President Kumba Yala. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Malian contractual teachers in the country's primary and secondary schools began a two-week strike Wednesday to push for the harmonisation of their salaries with those of their fully integrated colleagues in the civil service. Full text...

Abomey-Calavi- Benin (PANA) -- Professors at the University of Abomey-Calavi who are members of the autonomous Trade Union of Research and Higher Education (SYNARES) on Wednesday intensified their three-day strike begun Tuesday in demand for improved working and living conditions. Full text...

Manzini- Swaziland (PANA) -- Swazi trade unions and civic organisations Tuesday called on Prime Minister Sibusiso Dlamini to resign for his alleged failure to satisfy the yearnings of the citizenry. Full text...

Mbabane- Swaziland (PANA) -- Trade unions in Swaziland have indicated they would go ahead with a general two-day strike planned for next Tuesday and Wednesday despite threats from King Mswati III warning against the industrial action. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Port workers in Benin began a three-day strike here Wednesday to protest the planned privatisation of the Cotonou Autonomous Port and the construction of a new port by the French Bouygues Group. Full text...

Bissau- Guinea Bissau (PANA) -- Civil servants in Guinea Bissau Monday started a five-day strike to press their demand for payment of six-month salary arrears and improved working conditions. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Six drivers working for a Mauritian company, White Sand Tours (WST), marked the sixth day of their hunger strike Monday, demanding the reinstatement of 39 of their fired colleagues. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Drivers thronged filling stations Monday in Algiers to beat a two-day strike scheduled to start Tuesday by the General Union of Algerian Workers (UGTA). Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Thousands of commuters were stranded in Nigerian cities Friday due to the resurgence of fuel scarcity in the country, as oil workers ended their six-day strike to press for autonomy and better welfare for staff at the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR). Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- A three-day strike by the umbrella union of secondary school teachers in Benin entered its second day on Wednesday, with the strikers demanding better living and working conditions from the government of President Mathieu Kerekou. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- The nationwide customs officers' strike held Wednesday in Algeria drew a large turnout, according to the organisers in Algiers. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Striking primary and nursery school teachers in Benin have told President Mathieu Kerekou's government that they would only resume classes after it has cleared their salary arrears. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- Workers at the Cameroon Chamber of Agriculture were Tuesday beginning the third month of a strike they started on 18 December 2002 to press for payment of salary arrears. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- The Federation of Benin Teachers in General, Technical and Vocational Education have decided to observe a three-day strike beginning Tuesday to demand better living and working conditions for its members. Full text...

Bissau- Guinea-Bissau (PANA) -- Guinea-Bissau senior health workers' union and the union of technical health workers Monday embarked on a four-day non-renewable strike. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The strike by senior Nigerian oil workers slated to start Saturday will not affect local fuel supply, according to officials of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN). Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Senior Nigerian oil workers said Friday they would proceed on strike Saturday, following the expiration of their 14-day ultimatum to the federal government to meet their demands, which included prompt payment of salaries at the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR). Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Some 10,000 dockworkers will observe a daylong strike at Algeria's 15 commercial ports on Sunday, union sources said Friday. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- A call by the Cameroon Civil Servants Union (CSP) for a 48-hour strike beginning Wednesday appeared to have gone unheeded, as government offices functioned normally in the capital Yaounde. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- Niger's Union of Contracted Teachers and National Civic Service conscripts (UNAVES) started Monday a five-day nation-wide strike to demand better working conditions. Full text...

Manzini- Swaziland (PANA) -- Public servants unions in Swaziland have rejected an invitation by Prime Minister Sibusiso Dlamini to discuss with him a "compromise" plan to avert a stay-away strike set for next week. Full text...

Bissau- Guinea Bissau (PANA) -- Employees of Guinea Bissau's National Assembly and affiliated services have threatened to embark on a general strike soon to protest the non-payment of salaries for the past seven months. Full text...

Libreville- Gabon (PANA) -- The Gabonese government is off to a rough start in the New Year with simmering social unrest marked by several strikes. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- Niger's passenger transporters are in their second day of a three-day strike to demand "the abrogation or relaxation" of a government order prohibiting them from offering their services after 2100 GMT, a transport union official said in Niamey. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- Cameroon's Public Sector Union (CSPC) has warned President Paul Biya's government that it intends to call a strike from 22-23 January to press for better working conditions for its members. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Transport workers in Morocco are defiant to extend their national strike if the revenant ministry refused to discuss their demands, union officials said here. Full text...

Manzini- Swaziland (PANA) -- A national strike called by trade unions, political and church organizations in Swaziland kicked off Monday in protest against the purchase of a private jet for King Mswati III. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Striking miners at Roan Antelope Mining Corporation of Zambia mine have burnt offices of the Mineworkers Union of Zambia as they pressed for payment of salary arrears and terminal benefits, the local media reported here Wednesday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Junior workers at Nigeria's Defence Ministry in Abuja downed tools Monday in protest against non- payment of allowances, the local press reported Tuesday. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- The administrative staff of Cape Verde's Ports Company (ENAPORT) were observing the last day of their crippling two-day strike Wednesday, in protest against governments' alleged failure to implement a new service and pay structure for the workers. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Workers across Zimbabwe Tuesday ignored an opposition call for a general strike in protest against alleged human rights violations by the government, and increasing economic hardships. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- The Central Union of Public Sector workers in Cameroon (CSP) has warned of a series of protests in the month of January 2003 if the government remained nonchalant towards demands for increased pay, sources told PANA Monday in Yaounde. Full text...