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    Workers in Burkina Faso staged a 48-hour general strike - ending on Thursday - for the second time in less than two months. Thomas Paulin Ouedraogo, secretary for organisation and coordination of the Confederation nationale des Travailleurs burkinabe (CNTB), told IRIN on Thursday that one of the main reasons for the protest was the dismissal of eight shop stewards at a sugar company privatised in 1998. The unions want the Societe Sucriere de la Comoe (SOSSUCO) to reinstate the shop stewards who, they say, were dismissed for participating in a general strike on 29-30 June. The unions also want the withdrawal of dismissal warnings issued to 47 workers of a local cement company for participating in the strike. Another demand is the repeal of a new decree which requires holders of the baccalaureat to sit a university entrance examination which, Ouedraogo charged, "reduces the value of the bac".

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