The African Regional Organization of the International Trade Union Confederation (www.ituc-africa.org) writes to express its solidarity with Mogadishu’s Aden Adde International Airport workers striking over management abuses.
We write on behalf of the The African Regional Organisation of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-Africa www.ituc-africa.org) to condemn the labeling of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), our affiliate, as a terrorist organisation by ZANU-PF, the ruling party of Zimbabwe.
On the occasion of the fifty-eight anniversary of the international day of African women, the African Regional Organisation of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-Africa www.ituc-africa.org) commends the courage and determination of all African girls and women as we stand with (...)
The Nigeria Labour Congress is horrified at the escalating insecurity in different parts of the country. The current sad state of affairs took another calamitous turn with the public execution of five humanitarian workers by Boko Haram in Borno State. The Presidency has already identified (...)
This is the third Issue of ITUC-Africa’s Special Newsletter on African responses to the COVID-19 crisis and the role of trade unions. This time round, we focus on the remaining 12 countries that were not covered by our two previous Issues. We look once again at the country responses in terms (...)
The African Regional Organization of the International Trade Union Confederation (www.ituc-africa.org), joins the rest of the world to celebrate the strength and courage of millions of people who have been forced to flee their home country to escape conflict or persecution.
We recall that (...)
African Child Day is celebrated each 16TH June in remembrance of hundreds of South African students killed and injured on June 16, 1976 in Soweto during their demonstration to demand quality education.
Today, the situation of children in Africa is still a preoccupation and leaders are called (...)
Africa has the world’s highest incidence rates of child labour. The 2016 Global Estimates of Child Labour by the ILO indicate that 1 out of every 5 children in Africa is involved in child labour, a proportion more than twice as high as in other regions of the world. The problem is severe in (...)
Nigerian workers join the rest of the world to celebrate the 2020 World Food Safety Day (WFSD). This global event, being marked for the second consecutive year, is aimed at raising public awareness on the need to protect our food sources from contamination arising from unsafe production, (...)
This is the second issue of ITUC-Africa’s Special Edition Newsletter on COVID-19. As in the first issue, the focus once again is on individual African country responses to the crisis and the trade union role thereof. We also provide some information on effects on migrant and domestic workers (...)
Zimbabwe has been in a political and economic crisis for well over a decade. Politics in Zimbabwe during the period has been turbulent and characterized by authoritarianism and rights abuses while the country’s economy has suffered numerous ailments. These have included capital flight, low (...)
The first cases of COVID-19 were recorded in the Republic of Zambia on March 18, 2020. This involved a Zambian couple who had returned from holiday in France. One week later on 25th March 2020, 10 more cases were detected among a group of Zambians of Pakistani origin who had returned from a (...)
Tanzania has been under scrutiny from the World Health Organization (WHO) and other institutions for various reasons since COVID-19 began to spread across Africa. Specifically, Tanzania’s approach to fighting the spread of the virus has been classified as not being stringent enough and (...)
In the Central African Republic, which is considered by the United Nations to be one of the "least prepared" countries in the world to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, one out of every two people is in need of humanitarian assistance and about 70% of health services are provided by (...)
Located in the heart of the Sahel, Niger has a non-diversified economy, essentially dependent on agriculture (40% of the GDP). Despite the great progress made by the country over the last decade in reducing its poverty rate, the level of extreme poverty remained very high at 41.4% in 2019, (...)
Mauritius is a tourism destination island nation of 1.2 million people. The coronavirus entered the island on the 18th March, 2020. As of May 14, 2020, the country had recorded 332 confirmed cases with 322 recoveries and 10 deaths.
The government of Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth rightly (...)
Mauritania moved quickly to address the health crisis once COVID-19 reared its head in the country. As soon as the first case appeared on Friday March 13, 2020 the Mauritanian authorities began to implement measures to respond as best as possible to the pandemic. As of May 25, 2020, the (...)
Morocco joined early the league of African nations that received the coronavirus. Following the announcement of the first confirmed case of COVID-19 on March 02, 2020, Morocco implemented a major response plan to fight against the spread of the virus and to cope with the economic and social (...)
The COVID-19 pandemic reached Malawi in the context of a major political contestation and turmoil. In February, 2020 the country’s constitutional court nullified the results of the disputed May 2019 presidential elections due to “severe irregularities”. The judges ordered fresh elections that (...)
Already plagued by insecurity arising from terrorist attacks since 2012, Mali has been further destabilized by the COVID-19 health crisis. Since March 25, 2020 when the first two cases (two Malians who returned from France in mid-March) of the coronavirus were confirmed, the numbers have (...)
Liberia suffered two major civil wars between 1989 and 2003 that killed well over 400,000 thousand people. Still fragile from the war, the country was hit eleven years later by the Ebola virus epidemic in 2014 which lasted till 2015. A poor country struggling to recover from the devastation (...)
Eritrea had experienced low economic growth rates in recent years that had impacted on its status as a least developed and economically fragile country. Experts had recently, however, predicted a positive economic outlook in the coming years with upward growth forecasts for 2020 and 2021. This (...)
Following the announcement of the first case of COVID-19 on 19th March, 2020 in Chad, the country had as of March 28 recorded 715 cases with 359 recoveries and 64 deaths. The competent authorities have taken a series of measures to limit the spread of the virus. At a time when some countries (...)
The Sudanese people, after months of sustained protests across the cities and streets of the country in 2019, successfully got rid of President Omar Ahmed al-Bashir in an unarmed revolution. The country was gradually settling into her strides to consolidate the revolution when this was (...)
South Sudan, the youngest republic in Africa, has a population of about 11 million people and immense natural resources. It is recovering from a long civil war of almost seven years after the separation from Sudan. It has been plagued by destabilization, rebellions and militias and is marked (...)
