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Kenya Sacks 86 Striking Doctors
The Kenya government has sacked the Acting General Secretary of a medical practitioner and doctors union, Chibanzi Mwachonda,…
Nairobi Doctors End Strike After Signing NMS Pay Deal
Nairobi County government medical staff resumed work on Thursday following a six-day strike over delayed salaries and a…
Nine Die from Gunshot Wounds in Ethiopia Protest
No fewer than nine people have died in Ethiopia after a clash erupted between the country’s security forces…
Nigerian doctors strike over police harassment during Covid-19 curfew
Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu later granted their request along with previous agitations by journalists and other essential workers to be allowed to go to work or return home freely after work between the 8pm to 6am.
Diaspora doctors to help Ethiopia fight Covid-19
The global response to the pandemic has benefited from the work of Ethiopian doctors overseas, including aides to WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus -- who is himself Ethiopian, though not a doctor -- and emergency-room physicians in hotspots like New York.
Zimbabwe’s striking junior doctors look to resume work
Zimbabwe’s public hospital junior doctors who have been on strike over better salaries and working conditions, remain hopeful…