Recent news
Latest items of recent news relevant to Africa as reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’.
Madagascar: Punishment in kind
Parliament has just approved a Bill (still to be signed by the State President) that would punish those guilty of sexual crimes against children and minors through forced castration or impotence via surgery …
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Africa: Departure of three ECOWAS member states
Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have announced they are leaving the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) …
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Cameroon: New anti-malaria vaccine
Each year, there are six million malaria cases across the country, with over 4,000 deaths …
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Africa: Life expectancy trends still leave many workers old at age 50
Now that the World is recovering from the pandemic, life expectancy, which generally dipped globally by around 1 …
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Burkina Faso: Resurgence of inflation (June 2023)
After a sharp rise in consumer prices, peaking last November consumer prices began to fall in the new year …
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Burkina Faso: Minimum wage revised (1 July 2023)
The guaranteed minimum monthly wage (SMIG) has just been increased by 46 …
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São Tomé and Príncipe: E-Visa now basis for business trips
Access to the second smallest (and probably safest) country in Africa can be achieved through an on-line secured E-Visa …
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Côte d’Ivoire: New minimum wage (2023)
To support workers who have suffered from price escalations due to the COVID-19 pandemic (and particularly grain prices arising from the war in Ukraine), the guaranteed monthly gross minimum wage (SMIG) has been increased by 25% from 60,000 CFA francs per month to 75,000 (US$124 …
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Cameroon: Decree setting 2023 monthly minimum wages
The minimum gross monthly wage for government employees covered by the Labour Code has just been raised from CFA36,270 to CFA41,875 (US$69 …
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Africa: Lack of free movement of labour impeding growth
Although 48 out of 54 African countries have ratified the African continental free trade agreement (AfCFTA), only five have so far ratified the free movement protocol – Mali, Rwanda, Niger, and Sao Tome and Principe …
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Gambia: Wide reaching labour reform
A Bill to replace the Labour Act 2007 with a much more comprehensive law is currently before the National Assembly …
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Central African Republic: Another year of economic crisis
The International Monetary Fund recently completed an ‘Article IV’ Mission to the country …
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Cameroon: Ratification of multilateral social security agreement
The President has signed the decree issued in response to an initiative by the Inter-African Conference on Social Insurance (CIPRES) – which ratifies a common Multilateral Convention on Social Security [Decree No …
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Somalia: Dismissal of employee because they were pregnant
A US NGO, the International Rescue Committee, has appealed to the Supreme Court concerning the decision by the Benadir Regional Court, to uphold a Ministry Conflict Resolution Committee decision concerning dismissal on grounds of pregnancy – contrary to Somalia’s Labour Law of 1972 …
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Cameroon: Workers demand revision of 9 collective agreements
The Ministry of Labour and Social Security have been asked to step in to help eight sectoral collective agreements …
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