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Schools deserted because of strike

[Somalia] Internally displaced persons who have re-located to the higher levels of the road from Somalia’s port city of Kismayo to Jamame, due to heavy floods, Arare, 12 km from Jamame, southern Somalia, 15 December 2006. United Nations agencies involve Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
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    Most government schools were closed on Friday as a result of a third day of a nationwide strike by the country’s civil servants. Media reports said that schools were among the hardest hit by the industrial action.

    The civil servants said they had reached an impasse in the negotiations with the government over a 20 percent cost of living adjustment and a five percent salary increase which has been outstanding since January. AFP quoted President Robert Mugabe as saying that the strike was “completely unjustifiable.” He added : “It is a strike with no valid basis, possibly by people who just want to be idle.”

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