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/ Africa ITUC-Africa lauds Chad’s visa-free initiative [VON] 22-07-2026


/ Chad ITUC-Africa praises Chad’s visa-free initiative, says now is for Africa to unite [The Vanguard] 21-07-2026


/ Africa MENA unions want psychosocial harms of BPO work recognized as an occupational disease [UNI Global Union] 08-07-2026


Africa cannot end poverty without tackling inequality — Anyigba, ITUC-Africa Chief Economist [Nigerian Tribune] 08-07-2026


/ Nigeria ITUC-Africa urges Nigeria, others to crack down on workplace violence [Vanguard] 04-07-2026



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Africa ITUC-Africa lauds Chad’s visa-free initiative 2026-07-22 [VON]

Chad ITUC-Africa praises Chad’s visa-free initiative, says now is for Africa to unite 2026-07-21 [The Vanguard]

ITUC-Africa calls for new Occupational Safety and Health Bill to protect workers 2026-07-17 [TVC News]

Africa Address to 15th BRICS Trade Unions Forum, India 2026, by Overall Coordinator of Organised Labour at NEDLAC, Gerald Twala 2026-07-16 [COSATU]

Global outrage as ITUC-Africa defends Mbappé against racist insult 2026-07-10 [Vanguard]

Africa More than 50,000 immigrants have fled SA 2026-07-08 [GroundUp]

Africa cannot end poverty without tackling inequality — Anyigba, ITUC-Africa Chief Economist 2026-07-08 [Nigerian Tribune]

Africa MENA unions want psychosocial harms of BPO work recognized as an occupational disease 2026-07-08 [UNI Global Union]

Nigeria ITUC-Africa urges Nigeria, others to crack down on workplace violence 2026-07-04 [Vanguard]

ITUC-Africa urges Nigeria, others to crack down on workplace violence 2026-07-03 [The Vanguard]

Africa Eleven Years of Everything: The Woman the Hotel Used Up and Threw Away For more info 2026-07-02 [The Labour Pulse]

African workers seek bold action on reparatory justice, public service 2026-07-01 [The Guardian]

Africa Loading the Nation, Unprotected: Casual Labour at Apapa Port For more info 2026-06-30 [The Labour Pulse]

Africa The Invisible Workers: How the Gig Economy Is Failing Millions of Nigerians For more info 2026-06-30 [The Labour Pulse]

Africa March and March has delivered nothing but suffering 2026-06-29 [GroundUp]

ITUC-Africa urges increased public service funding to fight poverty, inequality 2026-06-25 [Nigerian Pilot]

ITUC-Africa hails landmark Global Reparations Framework 2026-06-24 [VON]

South Africa Don’t blame migrants for economic crisis, SA labour unions warn anti-migrant groups 2026-06-23 [Nigerian Tribune]

African trade union pushes for compensation over slavery, colonial rule 2026-06-23 [Vanguard]

ITUC-Africa decries low wages, poor working conditions for domestic workers 2026-06-18 [Nigerian Pilot]

OATUU Welcomes Landmark Adoption of Convention on Decent Work in the Platform Economy at 114th ILC 2026-06-16 [OATUU]

ITUC-Africa urges Nigeria, others to ratify platform workers’ treaty 2026-06-16 [Vanguard]

ITUC-Africa raises red card against child labour 2026-06-13 [VON]

ITUC-Africa seeks urgent action against child labour 2026-06-13 [Peoples Gazette]

USA World Cup: ITUC raises racism, fairness concerns over referee ban 2026-06-13 [Vanguard]

Young worker leaders build power across Africa 2026-06-11 [Solidarity Center]

African workers seek end to corruption, inequality, wars 2026-06-10 [Nigerian Tribune]

African trade unions take fight against corruption to Geneva 2026-06-09 [The Vanguard]

African trade unions take fight against corruption to Geneva 2026-06-08 [Vanguard]

ITUC-Africa, PSI, IndustriALL reject AfDB’s Mission 300 electricity project 2026-06-03 [Nigerian Tribune]

ITUC seeks freer movement in Africa, decries xenophobic attacks 2026-06-03 [The Guardian]

Africa Holding Chinese MNCs accountable across the value chain 2026-06-03 [BWI]

Africa African workers excited as Congo announces visa-free entry 2026-05-31 [Vanguard]

Africa Delivering the Digital Economy: African Migrant Workers in the United Arab Emirates E-Commerce and Delivery Sectors 2026-05-30 [Equidem]

PSI calls for public energy and rejects Mission 300’s focus on private sector energy 2026-05-30 [PSI]

‘600m Africans in darkness’: Workers reject AfDB, World Bank electricity plan 2026-05-29 [The Vanguard]

Africa NUM condemns attacks on fellow African migrants 2026-05-28 [NUM]

Nigeria $1.6bn lost daily as Africans suffer water, power poverty, Labour fumes 2026-05-26 [Vanguard]

South Africa COSATU statement on Africa day 2026-05-26 [COSATU]

African journalists call for stronger press Freedom protection on Africa Day 2026-05-25 [IFJ]

ITUC blames inequality, failed governance for labour migration crisis 2026-05-21 [The Guardian]

Africa ITUC concerned by escalating anti-migrant campaign 2026-05-21 [ITUC]

We are paying for wars we didn’t start, Labour decries fuel crisis 2026-05-20 [Vanguard]

Union seeks Africa’s reindustrialisation for job creation 2026-05-14 [The Guardian]

Middle East MENA youth take their seat at the table 2026-05-14 [IndustriALL]

Africa’s stolen billions, broken systems pushing youth to risk death abroad – Labour 2026-05-10 [Vanguard]

African trade unions seek a seat at the climate table 2026-05-08 [IndustriALL]

Carbon Offset Projects in Africa Depend on Workers—Yet Exclude Them from Decent Work For more info 2026-05-06 [Solidarity Center]

ITUC advances industrialisation agenda, demands end to inequality 2026-05-06 [The Guardian]

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