June 7, 2026
By Victor Ahiuma-Young
African trade unionists and workers’ organisations have taken their campaign against corruption, inequality and violent conflict to the global stage, rallying in Geneva, Switzerland, to demand urgent action to address challenges they say are undermining democracy, development and social justice across the continent.
The demonstration, organised on the sidelines of the ongoing 114th Session of the International Labour Conference, ILC, of the ongoing of the International Labour Organisation, ILO, in Geneva, Switzerland, brought together labour leaders, workers and civil society allies under the banner of the African Regional Organisation of the International Trade Union Confederation, ITUC-Africa, which warned that corruption and illicit financial flows continue to rob African nations of resources needed for development.
ITUC-Africa, General Secretary, Akhator Joel Odigie, in a statement, after the rally, said the continent’s workers and citizens remain the biggest victims of corruption, state capture, unsustainable debt and illicit financial flows.
