Petro Oil Kenya fires workers for joining union
Despite a court order in December directing the company to recognize the Kenya Petroleum Oil Workers Union (KPOWU), the company has dismissed over 30 workers immediately after they joined the union. The company has also outsourced the fuel pumps where the KPOWU represents the majority of the workers
Security guards in South Africa go on indefinite strike demanding payment of wages
Nearly 3,000 guards embarked on an indefinite strike on January 21 to demand the payment of their wages. Their employers claim that they are unable to pay as the government department which has contracted them has not released funds
Colombians return to the streets en masse in national strike
Thousands mobilized on Tuesday, January 21 across Colombia to mark a return to the mobilizations against the government of Iván Duque
Juan Guaidó: One year of promises and submission to Donald Trump
What has happened in the year since Juan Guaidó declared himself president of Venezuela?
Brazil’s MST demands agrarian reform and dignified life for all
Members of the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement in Paraná have been mobilized in the Peasant Resistance Vigil for the past three weeks
US deports Iranian student amid protests
The case of Iranian student Hossein Abadi marks the tenth such deportation in less than a year. The news of his deportation led to a protest at the international terminal of the Logan airport in Boston
Guinea-Bissau war of independence
The war ended when Portugal, after the Carnation Revolution of 1974, granted independence to Guinea-Bissau, followed by Cape Verde a year later.
Prominent Pakistani lawyer-activist banned from foreign travel
Jalila Haider was detained by the Pakistani Federal Investigation Agency at the Lahore airport on January 20 for alleged anti-state activism and she was barred from traveling outside the country