Zimbabwe: Nurses strike over salaries

Service delivery at city council hospitals and polyclinics has been disrupted by a nurses strike in Zimbabwe's capital Harare. The nurses went on strike on Monday over a salary dispute with the city council, demanding a second 100 percent salary hike after receiving a similar increase in January. Chairman of the Harare Municipal Workers' Union, Cosmas Bungu, said the 100 percent salary increase awarded to council workers in January this year was not enough to keep pace with the rising cost of living. Inflation has hovered around 600 percent in recent months.