National strike hits South Africa
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Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers have stayed away from work, in what could be the biggest strike in South Africaâs history.
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LAGOS - Nigerian unions began a four-day general strike yesterday to protest against rising fuel prices, issuing their latest challenge to President Olusegun Obasanjo and his programme of economic reforms.
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South Africa&#39;s two-week-old public sector strike should have been avoided and is damaging the country&#39;s image abroad, the deputy leader of the governing ANC said Thursday.
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At least 60 people were injured in clashes between police and opposition activists during a nationwide strike on Saturday, the fifth in two weeks.
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A general strike in Africa&#39;s top oil  producer began on Wednesday after unions rejected government  concessions on fuel prices as too little too late.
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South African civil servants staged an indefinite nationwide strike over pay on Friday, causing turmoil in hospitals and emptying classrooms in a mass action the government fears could hurt the economy.
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Trade Unions and civil rights groups in Nigeria, Africa&#39;s largest oil exporter, have called off a national strike over fuel prices.
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An estimated 800,000 government workers demanding higher pay and more benefits walked off the job Thursday in what union leaders called the biggest strike in South African history.
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As world oil prices again hit new highs, Nigeria's biggest labor federation launched a four-day nationwide strike Monday to protest the rising cost of fuel at home, shutting down huge swathes of Lagos, the country's largest city and its commercial center.
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Nationwide power outages shut down basic services across Zambia and Zimbabwe as anger mounted in South Africa over power cuts that have wreaked havoc in the continent's economic hub.
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Teachers, tax collectors, railway workers and other public servants went on strike Thursday in France to protest job losses and demand higher pay.
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JOHANNESBURG, June 13 -- Tens of thousands of government workers on Wednesday intensified their biggest strike since the end of apartheid, closing schools, snarling transportation systems and virtually shutting down sections of South Africa's largest cities.
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JOHANNESBURG, June 1 -- Public-sector workers staged a nationwide strike Friday, closing down schools, forcing hospital patients to return home and leaving only minimum staffing in prisons.
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Thousands of South African workers  marched on Wednesday in sympathy with striking civil servants  in a show of force that highlighted the divide between the  ruling African National Congress and its trade union allies.
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Israeli unions began a nationwide strike on Tuesday expected to affect about 400,000 public sector workers and severely hamper international travel.
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Schools were closed, hospitals running a skeleton service and traffic was disrupted across South Africa on Friday as hundreds of thousands of public servants embarked on an indefinite strike.
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A four-day national strike has begun in Nigeria in protest at a 25% increase in the cost of oil. Oil executives in Nigeria said they were confident there would be no immediate disruption to exports.