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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,…
January 7, 2021
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…
August 27, 2020
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…
August 21, 2020
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.
May 21, 2020
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.
May 13, 2020
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…
January 4, 2020