Tanzania Raises Minimum Wage

The Tanzanian government has raised its minimum wage by 25 per cent, thereby forestalling a countrywide strike planned by the country’s trade unions. The raise was embraced by the Trade Union Congress of Tanzania (TUCTA), which immediately called off plans for mass protests to pressurise the government into implementing a wage raise in tandem with the country’s rising cost of living. The increment will be in effect from July and will be backdated to January. [P.E]