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Yahoo! reports sagging profit and job cuts

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:59:00 +0200

SAN FRANCISCO: Yahoo! on Tuesday, 21 April 2009 reported that its net profit slumped nearly 80% in the first three months of the year and that it will trim its workforce by five percent to cut costs.
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SA work permit for Zimbabweans

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:20:00 +0200

The South African Home Affairs Ministry has announced a new work permit which will enable Zimbabweans to stay and work legally in the country for six months. About three million Zimbabweans are believed to have crossed the border to escape the economic collapse and human rights abuses at home.
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Jack Hammer Executive Headhunters creates Africa division

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:58:00 +0200

Jack Hammer Executive Headhunters, a recruitment company in South Africa has expanded its operations to West, East and sub-Saharan Africa. Managing director, Debbie Goodman-Bhyat, says her company has formed an Africa division in the wake of increasing demand from multi-national corporate clients in the banking, retail, FMCG as well as construction, telecoms and petroleum sectors.
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Increased labour, job mobility for MENA region - WB

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:22:00 +0200

BRUSSELS: According to a new report released by the World Bank MENA region, global demographic developments will lead to greater labour and job mobility in the coming decades. The report titled, "Shaping the Future: A Long Term Perspective of People and Job Mobility for the Middle East and North Africa", predicts that by 2050, the declining labour force in some regions could reach a total of 215 million workers while other regions may experience an increase in excess of 500 million.
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Sierra Leone: Could youth unemployment derail stability?

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:29:00 +0200

FREETOWN: In Koidu, the capital of Sierra Leone's easternmost Kono province, 26-year-old Sam heads to the town-centre each morning seeking daily contract work building roads or digging ditches for the local authorities.
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Botswana: Diamonds are not forever

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:46:00 +0200

GABORONE: "The situation is now very bad, very bad for workers. It is no longer about the workers alone, it is about the government, the companies, everyone. We need to talk. Dialogue is the only solution." This was a response from Jack Tlhagale, secretary general of the Botswana Mine Workers Union (BMWU), when asked about the ongoing mine retrenchments and closures.
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ZAMBIA: Copper loses it shine and Copperbelt its jobs

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:55:00 +0200

LUANSHYA: The sharp fall in international copper prices is leading to huge job losses and deepening poverty in Zambia's economic heartland, Copperbelt Province.
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DR Congo: Joblessness rises as global crisis hits mining

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:50:00 +0200

LUBUMBASHI: It is busy at the gates of Bralima brewery in Lubumbashi, the capital of Katanga province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). About 60 men are waiting at the doors, hoping for them to open and someone to offer them work. Their numbers have grown since the global economic crisis which has caused the collapse of the local mining industry.
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Job losses as diamonds lose their lustre

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:37:00 +0200

GABORONE: Thousands of mining jobs in Botswana are in jeopardy as diamond and other mineral sales dwindle and companies begin retrenching to cut costs.
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Liberia: Trading weapons for makeup brushes - but still no jobs

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:43:00 +0200

MONROVIA: Tony Clarke traded two grenades for a set of combs, makeup brushes, nail varnish and a short course in cosmetology.
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