Mauritania raises wages by 600%
Mauritania has raised its minimum wage by more than 600% – the latest in a series of measures aimed at preventing further trouble after three coup attempts…
…Former army officer Salih Walad Hananna, on trial along with more than 190 other suspects, has accused the government during his court appearances of not doing enough to help Mauritania’s people (more…)
New child labour laws help police act quickly
Libreville – Gabonese police picked up 60 foreign children working illegally on the streets of Libreville as well as 20 of their suspected employers in their first swoop under new legislation against the practice, officials said on Wednesday.
Deputy police commander Colonel Matthieu Douana said that all but four of the children held on Tuesday were girls, more than half from Benin but also from Togo, Nigeria or Ghana. The four boys were all Nigerian (more…)
SNC-Lavalin awarded $750M contract to build water treatment plant in Algeria
Construction giant SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. has been awarded a $750-million contract to design and build a water-treatment plant and pumping station in Algeria.
The facility will be built at Taksebt, about 100 kilometres east of the capital Algiers, and will include a 600,000 cubic-metre-per-day water treatment plant and pumping station (more…)
Wave of deadly clashes in Sudan’s Darfur region
Dozens of people have been killed or injured during a series of attacks by rebels or armed tribesmen against villages in Sudan’s war-scarred Darfur region, the United Nations Advance Mission in Sudan (UNAMIS) reported today.
In the deadliest incident, between 24 and 36 people were reported killed, and 26 others injured, when a convoy of rebels attacked the village of Al-Mallam in South Darfur state last Friday (more…)
Mugabe’s party riven with dissent as his power ebbs
ACCUSATIONS of violence and voter intimidation yesterday dogged internal polls held by Zimbabwe’s ruling party to select candidates for the general election in March…
Earlier this month, in a rare challenge to the party’s leadership, angry war veterans stormed a ZANU-PF meeting in a Mutare hotel to complain that candidates for this year’s parliamentary elections were being imposed on them, according to the weekly Manica Post. “There was chaos,” Shadreck Chipanga, who heads ZANU-PF’s co-ordinating committee in Manicaland province, told the newspaper (more…)
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