Mozambique: Literacy Workers in Beira Go On Strike

Maputo — Over a hundred adult education and literacy workers, in the central Mozambican city of Beira, on Wednesday went on strike in protest at the non-payment of overtime allowances that the government has allegedly owed them for the past three years.

According to the literacy workers, who demonstrated in front of Education Ministry provincial offices, the government owes each of them about 100,000 meticais (about 1,500 US dollars at the current exchange rate), according to the independent…