The political struggle of the working class in Africa as a whole

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Africans Observe Low-Key Workers' Day
PANA, May 1996. Reports from various parts of Africa indicate that workers are less enthusiastic about the day because of economic hardships caused by low wages and higher consumer prices. The weakening of the international labour movement following the end of the cold war is also to blame for workers' disillusionment.
African unions press for Nigerians' release
ICEMUpdate..., 3 April 1998. Union leaders from all over Africa will press the continent's employers and governments to help secure the release of Milton Dabibi, General Secretary of oil and gas workers' union PENGASSAN, and Frank Kokori, General Secretary of oil and gas workers' union NUPENG.
Organizing—ICEM African unions' big priority
ICEMUpdate..., 14 December 1998. At the ICEM's first African Regional Conference (Johannesburg, 7-9 December), 120 delegates from ICEM unions in 16 countries of sub-Saharan Africa identified three main challenges facing affiliates in the region.
Trade union body aims at wholly democratic Africa
By Xolani Xundu and Sapa, in Business Day, 10 April 1999. Secretary-general Hassan Sunmonu of the Organisation of African Trade Union Unity says political and social stability is a precondition to Africa's development.