A talk on "Deontology and Ethics in Juridical Labour Relations" is to open the 15th national week on general inspection of labour, on Monday in Lubango, Angola's southern Huila province, Angop learned.

Minister of labour, Dr. Hassan Mohammed Lawal has cautioned the management of banks in the country against casualisation of workers, as the ministry will no longer tolerate any organisation that does not abide with the labour standards in the sector.

Employers and labour officials have inched closer to agreeing on the implementation of five new labour laws, giving fresh impetus to a process that has been stuck in controversy.

The strike at Skorpion Zinc Mine might end today as the union says it is ready to sign a compromise agreement with the mine management, although with some uneasiness.

Mr Osei Wiafe-Akenten, Juaso District Manager of the Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Disease Control Unit (CSSVD), of the Ghana Cocoa Board has warned that, it is illegal and morally unacceptable to engage children as labourers, especially in the re-planting of

THE owners of the strike-hit Skorpion Zinc Mine near Rosh Pinah turned to the High Court on Friday in an effort to stop striking workers from interfering with the continuing activities of the mine.

A directive that part of civil servants' salaries be deducted to meet the cost of resettling internal refugees has been withdrawn.

A STRIKE at the Skorpion Zinc Mine in the South is set to continue into the second week after the union rejected a compromise offer from the company.

Fighters loyal to Somali insurgent group al Shabaab entered and gained control of two southern towns without facing resistance from government sources, Radio Garowe reported.

Th e interim president of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) is secretly backing a measure to extend the four-year term for Gen. Adde Muse, leader of the Puntland region in the northeast of the country, inside sources tell Garowe Online.

The Government will stop any further destruction of property and mayhem that have kept on recurring in parts of the country because of ethnic strife, Molo MP Joseph Kiuna has said.

Refugees, or internally displaced people (IDPs) can make, and have made, major differences in the world. Refugees arise from one of three ways.

The first repatriation this year of Congolese refugees from Zambia to the DRC was organised by the UNHCR on 13 May 2008, when 397 Congolese returned to Katanga by road from Zambia. UNHCR spokesperson in the DRC Francesca Fontanini explained

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) António Guterres today praised Yemen for providing protection to people making the dangerous Gulf of Aden crossing from Somalia, and called for more international support so the country can assist the refugees.

United Nations agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) today started distributing food and clean water to tens of thousands of people who fled fighting in the disputed Sudanese town of Abyei last week.

The Army may be popping champagne at the killing of Wycliffe Kirui Komon Matwakei last Friday. But if the security personnel were well informed, they would first hold their horses because the Mt Elgon offensive is far from over.