Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- There is an escalation in social upheavals in Algeria on the eve of the celebration of the 42nd anniversary of the confederation of trade unions on 24 February whereby workers unions take major decisions. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- At least 2,000 striking civil workers on Tuesday staged a peaceful demonstration in Cotonou, Benin's business capital, as their industrial action entered its fourth week. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- A series of strikes are expected in Cote d'Ivoire next week, trade union sources said in Abidjan Wednesday, quoting decisions taken by a meeting attended by 27 civil service trade unions on Tuesday. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Bankers and Insurance agents in Algeria have threatened a strike, expected to hurt the country's vital social sector. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Some 45,000 workers in the Algerian banking and insurance sectors plan to embark on a two-day strike beginning 19 February to press for better working conditions. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Benin's National Organisation of Trade Unions (UNSTB) Tuesday embarked on three-day renewable strike, the union said in a press statement issued in Cotonou. Full text...

Bissau- Guinea Bissau (PANA) -- The national Teacher's Union in Guinea-Bissau, which ended a nine-day strike Friday, has threatened to resume the industrial action in 24 hours should the government fail to meet the teachers' demands. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- A strike by teachers demanding for higher wages paralysed primary schools in Cote in d'Ivoire Tuesday. Full text...

Bissau- Guinea Bissau (PANA) -- Teachers in Guinea Bissau are on the second day of a nine day strike called by the National Teachers' Union (SINAPROF) to protest against government's refusal to honour an agreement signed on 10 October 2001. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- The 25-member Algerian Union of Income Tax Workers has decided to go on strike Tuesday and threatened to start a 10-day work stoppage with effect from 22 December, if their demands are not met. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Workers of Air Afrique Union (SUTAS) in Senegal, Monday decided to shun Air France flight from Paris, following a boycott call by the Air Afrique umbrella Union for the 11-owner countries of the ailing multinational Company. Full text...

Saint Denis- Reunion (PANA) -- More than 200 police personnel and workers in the Interior Ministry of the French protectorate of Reunion, Thursday staged a strike to protest difficult working conditions and rising crime rates in the protectorate. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Morocco's National Labour Union has called a 24-hour strike starting Wednesday in the health sector, reports from the union affiliated to Islamic Party for Justice and Development (PJD) said in Rabat Tuesday. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- A teachers' strike Tuesday crippled Morocco's primary and secondary schools. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- All 468 workers at the MOZAL aluminium smelter on the outskirts of Maputo who went on strike on 3 October have now returned to work, a company spokesman told the national news agency on Friday. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Flight personnel of Air Afrique, on strike since 23 October, have rejected half payment of three months' salary arrears owed them by management, saying they would continue the boycott to press for full payment. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- A 72-hour strike by telecommunication workers has disrupted telephone links, telex and internet connections in Niger since Tuesday. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Less than half the strikers returned to their work stations at the MOZAL aluminium smelter Wednesday although Mozambique's National Engineering Workers Union called off the strike on Tuesday morning, the country's news agency reported. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano has criticised the strike at the MOZAL aluminium smelter, now in its tenth day, and recognised that the entity pays higher wages than any other industry in the country. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Striking workers at Malawi's Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital have told health minister Yusuf Mwawa they would not resume work until the government met their demands in full. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- A three-day strike by the Ivorian Customs Workers Unions was called off Thursday morning after extensive negotiations between government authorities and the strikers. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The chairman of the Federation of the Mauritian Public Sector Unions, Rashid Imrith, has called on civil servants in the country to begin a national strike Saturday, the regional press agency, MATERA reported Wednesday. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- A strike by Ivorian customs officers entered its third day Wednesday paralysing activities at Abidjan port and Cote d'Ivoire's Felix Houphouet-Boigny international airport. Full text...

Douala- Cameroon (PANA) -- The Association of Douala central market traders (ASCOMCED) has written to the local administrative authorities warning of a planned strike in protest against harassment from tax officials, sources said at the weekend. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- Junior medical doctors in Sierra Leone on Friday ended a strike that had lasted for nearly 40 days to press for better working conditions. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Magistrates in Burundi are on a four-day strike to press for payment of salary arrears and improvement of working conditions, sources in Bujumbura said. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- A nation-wide strike has paralysed locl and international rail services in Malawi with its workers demanding higher pay rise. Full text...

Bissau- Guinea Bissau (PANA) -- A five-day strike by Elf-Bissau workers entered its second day Thursday to press for higher wages. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South African motor industry workers have called off their three-week strike after they reached an agreement with their employers on wage hikes. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- An estimated 21,000 members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, Numsa, on Monday downed their tools at car manufacturing companies across the country. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- Junior medical doctors in Sierra Leone government-owned hospitals embarked on an indefinite nation-wide strike effective Wednesday. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- Junior and intermediate staff at Sierra Leone's institutions of higher learning Saturday confirmed the resumption a strike they had put on hold earlier in the month. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Eskom employees returned to work Friday after workers' unions and the company resolved their wage and benefits dispute. Full text...

Bissau- Guinea Bissau (PANA) -- Education, transport, communications, port and airport workers in Guinea-Bissau are on a five-day strive called by the country's Confederation of Independent Trade Unions (CSI). Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The Teachers and Educational Workers Union of the University of Ghana in Accra on Thursday began an indefinite sit-down strike to press demands for the payment of salaries based on the new minimum daily wage of 5,500 cedis. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- Junior and intermediate staff of universities and teacher training colleges in Sierra Leone Wednesday announced suspension of their sit-in action till 20 July. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- The National Federation of Congolese Teachers (FENATREC), has suspended its one-month strike, the State radio announced Wednesday. Full text...

Bissau- Guinea Bissau (PANA) -- Public servants in Guinea Bissau have threatened to go on a six-day strike if the government would not respond positively to their demand for increased wages. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Congolese authorities Sunday arrested the secretary general of the National Federation of Teachers in Congo (FENATREC) along with other union executives as they met with members at the weekend. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- A Congolese NGO, Human Rights Observatory (OCDH), has called on the government and the National Federation of Congolese Teachers (FENATREC), to end the teachers' crippling national strike through dialogue. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Burundi's meteorological staff Wednesday remained on strike to press their demand for an increase in wages. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- The National Federation of Education Workers in Congo (FENATREC) has warned that the government was inciting popular revolt, after it suspended the salaries of 6,000 striking teachers. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Authorities in Congo have suspended the payment of salaries to more than 300 executives of the National Federation of the Teachers in Congo, whose three consecutive weeks of strike have crippled schools in the country. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Lecturers and workers at Brazzaville's Marien Ngouabi University are expected to end a strike after signing an agreement with the authorities. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- The management of the Lusaka University Teaching Hospital (UTH), Zambia's largest health facility, has ordered 10 of its wards closed following a worsening strike by nurses and paramedical staff. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- The government in Brazzaville is virtually in a catch 22 position, juggling in one hand IMF demands for cuts in public spending and, in the other, mounting pressure from striking teachers pressing for better conditions and pay. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Despite his personal involvement in negotiations with trade union leaders, Zambian President Frederick Chiluba has failed to break the deadlock over a wildcat strike that has paralysed his country. Full text...

Bulawayo- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Junior doctors in the southern Zimbabwean city of Bulawayo went on strike on Saturday to press authorities to pay them agreed allowances. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Malian National Television and Radio workers have deposited a 72-hour strike notice starting Thursday if authorities fail to meet their demands, trade union sources said in Bamako. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- The parliament in Benin has passed a bill legalising strike under its multiparty democracy. Full text...