Burundi: Nurses, teachers strike over IMF-mandated constraints

Thousands of teachers and hundreds of nurses in Burundi went on strike last month to protest the government’s inability to meet its commitments to increase wages and improve working conditions. In an attempt to end the strike, the government reiterated its promises to grant civil servants the 34 percent pay raise that it announced in May 2007. It remains unclear, however, whether the government will be able to keep up its end of the bargain.