By Own Correspondent – LONDON, — Britain’s biggest union for construction workers, Unite, has responded to Labour leadership contender Ed Balls comment on EU Immigration. Ed Balls recently said immigration had affected many communities across the country, and that future immigration from within the European Union needs to be more tightly controlled. Unite’s Assistant General Secretary, Les Bayliss said: “Ed Balls is absolutely correct. The current situation of immigration from the EU combined with weak employment protection in this country has led to widespread exploitation of workers in the construction industry. Wage levels are being undercut and national bargaining agreements... Continue Reading
Winners of the first eLearning Africa photo competition were last month featured in an exhibition at the fifth pan-African conference on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Development, Education and Training In Lusaka, Zambia, Kennedy Sinkali, surrounded by a crowd of eager fifth-grade school children, is captured explaining phonics to them in front of a laptop screen. Sinkali is a teacher in a village near Ndola in the Copperbelt province of Zambia and uses the school’s only computer, which has to be shared between four classes and three hundred children. Natasha Bomba, who took the picture while volunteering at the... Continue Reading
By NewsCollective/ Shout-Africa After a long month of uncertainty, the Euro is slowly inching up the global economy charts. But it is still too early to pop the champagne, as the Euro is still tottering due to the downgrade of Spain’s credit, which is a reminder that the debt crisis has not yet passed away says Vinita Bhatia, Head-NewsCollection Room, NewsCollective For more than a month now the Euro has been taking a battering in the global markets. It finally got some respite today as it stabilized against the dollar. However, this is the time for cautious optimism in light... Continue Reading
A diamond firm in Zimbabwe which is majority owned by Rio Tinto says it hopes to raise output harply at a mine in the south of the country. A $300m (£207m) expansion of the 300,000-carat per year Murowa mine is being prepared, Reuters has reported. Rio Tinto owns 78% of Murowa, and Rio Zim, a Zimbabwean-owned unit separated from Rio Tinto in 2004, owns the rest. Now Murowa is talking to the government about its recent decision to ban all diamond sales from Zimbabwe. Kimberley process Human rights groups had accused Zimbabwe’s security forces of abuses in the poorly secured... Continue Reading
