The working-class history of the Republic of Cameroon

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Teachers' Protest Disallowed
Panafrican News Agency, 16 January 2001. A protest march planned by Cameroonian teachers in Yaounde was disallowed for reasons of public order. All politically related events have been banned ahead of the France-Africa Summit. High school teachers, led by the National Union for Education and Training (SNAEF), have been pressurising the government to sign a decree on the implementation of their new service conditions.
Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Workers Strike
Panafrican News Agency (Dakar), 3 April 2001. Some 140 employees laying pipes to convey Chadian oil from Dowa to Kribi in Cameroon went on strike in Cameroon's Centre Province. The strikers wanted a wage hike and a 150 per cent increase in daily food ration.
ICFTU denounces harassment and detention of trade unionists in Cameroon
ICFTU online..., 14 February 2003. The unprecedented wave of repression against Cameroon trade unionists in recent days, which culminated yesterday in the arrest for the second time of Benoît Essiga, President of the ICFTU-affiliated Confederation syndicale des travailleurs du Cameroun (CSTC).
President of CGT-Liberté Cameroon faces trial
ICFTU, 17 October [sic] 2003. Protest campaign directed at the President of the Republic of Cameroon, Paul Biya, over the arrest of Benoît Essiga, the President of CGT-liberté, formerly the CSTC, and 14 of his colleagues following a dispute between the Camrail railway company and the Mfoundi-based Rail Transport Union.
La grève au Labogenie préoccupe la Cstc
By Guy Bertrans Wonkam (stagiaire), Le Quotidien Mutations (Yaoundé), 16 Décembre 2003. Le mouvement syndical et les libertés fondamentales au Cameroun, était au centre de la conférence de presse donnée jeudi à 16h par la Confédération syndical des travailleurs du Cameroun (Cstc) à la Bourse du travail de Messa (in french).