Employment and work

Saturday 12 June is World Day Against Child Labor, a day organized under the auspices of the UN. Three days ago, Unicef ​​and the International Labor Organization pointed out in a report the increase in the number of children forced to work in the world due to the effects of the pandemic. Children's rights NGOs warn of the physical, health and economic consequences of these forms of exploitation for minors. The majority of them are between 5 and 11 years old. According toa report published by Unicef ​​and the…

In Senegal, the agricultural sector employs about 60% of the working population. But does it attract young people, especially those affected by unemployment? In the river valley, the organizers of the first international agricultural fair in the north, which was held last weekend at the Diamadammen, on the Mauritanian border, want to believe it.…

For the first time in 20 years, child labor is increasing in the world and in Africa. This is stated in a report from the ILO, the International Labor Organization and Unicef. At the beginning of 2020, 160 million children were forced to work. 92 million in Africa. All the more must one look at the situation on the continent because the post-covid economic crisis is expected to increase this figure…

Like the rest of the world, the South African economy has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. The country most affected by Covid-19 on the continent was already struggling to renew its economic model even before the pandemic. The health crisis has therefore stopped the recovery work. A fatal blow? President Cyril Ramaphosa still hopes to rectify the situation, especially thanks to a recovery…

In Chad, unemployed academics demonstrated on Monday, May 24, before spreading rapidly. But the riot police fired tear gas into the courtyards of some high schools that are overwhelmed by the whirlwind. The teachers' union condemns another systematic use of tear gas by the police in high school. In the morning, unemployed…

A brand new personal cosmetology college, Farifima Worldwide Cosmetology College, has simply opened its doorways in Dakardébutavril to prepare youth in numerous beauty professions, on the initiative of an entrepreneur who has already launched his personal line of magnificence merchandise. A technique to educate youth who after six months obtain a certificates that the state acknowledges in beauty…

The house supply trade has exploded over the previous two years. They're mentioned to be greater than a thousand motorbike suppliers, affiliated with massive on-line gross sales firms or working on their very own behalf. Immediately, already victims of many site visitors accidents, they are saying they're the goal of gangs that concentrate on the theft of their autos and the income they carry with them.…

Because the finish of April 2021, the Congolese Ministry of Training has carried out biometric registration of lecturers to search out out their precise quantity, construct a database and block the way in which in opposition to fraudsters. Academics welcome the initiative, however are a little bit disgusted by the gradual and technical weaknesses noticed within the enrollment facilities.…

In Niger, civil society organizations in Arlit, a northern mining city, despatched a letter to President Mohamed Bazoum on Sunday. They categorical concern concerning the circumstances for the closure of the Akouta uranium mine, which is owned by Cominak, a subsidiary of the French large Orano. On March 31, Cominak stopped manufacturing.…

51 workers of Socotra, certainly one of the biggest freight transport firms in Côte d'Ivoire, have simply been laid off, or 20% of the corporate's workers (which has a whole of 251 workers). At the tip of March, the employees demanded the best to kind a commerce union inside the firm. They declare to have been rejected, main them to file a strike discover. The administration, which confirms these…