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1 | Mauritania: Mining Workers Protest ‘New Kind of Slavery’ | Maoritania: Mpiasa Mpitrandraka Arintany Manohitra Ny ‘Karazana Fanandevozana Vaovao’ |
2 | The northern Mauritanian cities of Zouerat and Nouadhibou are witnessing protests by workers who are not registered. | Zouerat sy Nouadhibou, tanàna any avaratr'i Maortania dia vavolombelon'ny hetsi-panoherana ataon'ireo mpiasa izay tsy voasoratra ara-dalàna. |
3 | More than 2,300 workers are protesting in the mining city of Zouerat, which has led to complete paralysis of some ten National Mining and Industrial Company sites (SNIM [fr]) in addition to disrupting work in other locations. | Maherin'ny 2.300 ireo mpiasa nanao hetsi-panoherana tao amin'ny tanànan'ire mpitrandraka ao Zouerat, izay nitondra hatrany amin'ny fiatoan'ireo toeram-pitrandrahan'ny Orinasa National Mining and Industrial Company (SNIM Société nationale industrielle et minière [fr]) efa ho am-polony fanampin'ny fikorontanan'ny asa tany an-toeran-kafa. |
4 | The workers are demanding to benefit from the wage increase granted recently by SNIM to its employees; they are also asking for social security, in addition to the right to be given work priority for being Mauritanian citizens, compared to foreign workers from the neighboring states. | Angatahan'ireo mpiasa ny hisitraka ny fisondrotan-karama nomen'ny SNIM tsy akory ho an'ireo mpiasany; angatahan-dry zareo ihany koa ny fiantohana ara-tsosialy, ho fanampin'ny fanomezana zo ireo teratany Maoritaniana ho voalohany amin'ny fandraisana hiasa, miohatra amin'ireo mpiasa avy amin'ireo firenena mpifanolo-bodirindrina. |
5 | New kind of slavery | Karazana fanandevozana vaovao |
6 | Such workers, known as “journalia” workers in the local dialect, are also asking for a direct contract with SNIM rather than contracts with outsourcing companies, which only pay 40 per cent of the SNIM wages to every laborer, something they consider human trafficking and a new kind of slavery. | Ny mpiasa toy izany, fantatra amin'ny fitenim-paritra any an-toerana hoe mpiasa “journalia” na mpikarama isan'andro , dia mangataka ihany koa ny hisian'ny fifanarahana mivantana amin'ny SNIM fa tsy fifanarahana aminà orinasa mpiantoka, izay tsy manome afa-tsy ny 40 isan-jato amin'izay vola aloan'ny SNIM ho an'ny mpiasa tsirairay, zavatra iray izay heverin-dry zareo ho toy ny fanodinkodinana olona sy endrika fanandevozana vaovao. |
7 | Protesters also threatened to hold a march from Zouerat to Nouakchott, similar to the one organized by Nouadhibou activists earlier. | Nandrahona ihany koa ireo mpanao hetsi-panoherana fa hanao diabe avy ao Zouerat ho any Nouakchott, mitovy amin'ilay iray nokarakarain'ireo mafàna fo tao Nouadhibo vao haingana teo. |
8 | In Nouadhibou, “journalia” workers are also staging a protest against what they call human trafficking; about 1,000 laborers are threatening to halt work and engage in an open strike. | Tao Nouadhibou, ireo mpiasa “journalia” dia nanao hetsi-panohera ihany koa hanoherany ny lazain-dry zareo fa fanodinkodinana olona; manodidina ny mpiasa 1.000 no nandrahona hampitsahatra ny asa sy hiditra aminà fitokonana tsy voafetra. |
9 | Photo of the Journalia Protest in Nouadhibou by Mauritannet blog | Sarin'ny hetsik'ireo Journalia tao Nouadhibou avy amin'ny bilaogy Mauritannet |
10 | The demonstration in Zouerat | Ny fikehiketsehana tao Zouerat |
11 | Mauritannet blog [ar] wrote about these protests and you can read about the Zouerat events in the Facebook Page of the 25th of February Movement: | Ny bilaogy Mauritannet [ar] dia nanoratra mikasika ireny hetsi-panoherana ireny ary azonao vakiana ao amin'ny pejy Facebook Hetsiky ny 25 Febroary ny mikasika ny zava-nisy tao Zouerat: |
12 | The city of Zouerat has been living on the rhythm of the protest of workers, which has entered its second week. | Nitepo nanaraka ny hetsik'ireo mpiasa ny tanànan'i Zouerat, izay miditra amin'ny herinandro faharoa izao. |
13 | Zouerat residents have shown their sympathy with the strikers and have manifested this by offering assistance to them so that their protest continues. | Ireo mponina ao Zouerat dia naneho ny firaisam-pony amin'ireo mpitokona ary naneho izany tamin'ny fanomezana tohana ho azy ireo hitohizan'ny hetsi-panohjeran'izy ireo. |
14 | The city's artists and poets are performing every night for them to incite them to continue their struggle for their rights. | Ireo mpanakanto sy poety tao an-tanàna dia manao fampisehoana isan-kalina ho azy ireo mba handrisihana an-dry zareo hanohy ny tolony fitakiana ny zony. |
15 | In Zouerat now, more than 2,300 workers are protesting against what they call human trafficking and they are calling to terminate their contract established with the intermediary companies. | Any Zouerat izao, maherin'ny 2.300 ny mpiasa manao hetsi-panoherana manohitra ny heveriny ho fanodinkodinana olona ary itakian-dry zareo ny hamaranana ny fifanarahan'asa nifanaovany tamin'ireo orinasa mpanelanelana. |
16 | Mauritanian blogger Alddedd Wald Al Sheik [ar] also wrote about this issue: | Ilay Maoritaniana bilaogera, Alddedd Wald Al Sheik [ar] dia nanoratra ihany koa mikasika ity olana ity : |
17 | The problem lies in the fact that the companies pay to its legal official employees four times the salaries it pays to the “journalia,” and has also increased their wages while it ignored the demands of journalia workers, which is according to unionists a dangerous precedent that might lead to the escalation and explosion of the situation in the company. | Ny olana dia mipetraka any amn'ny hoe ireo orinasa dia mandoa avo efatra heny ho an'ny mpiasa ara-dalàna ao aminy miohatra amin'ny karama omeny ireo “journalia,” sady koa mbola nanondrotra ny karaman'ny mpiasany nefa tsy nijery ny fitakian'ireo mpiasa ‘journalia', izay ho an'ireo sendika dia ho fiandohan-javatra mampidi-doza mety hitarika any aminà fiakarana sy fipoahana ara-tsosialy ao anatin'ilay orinasa. |
18 | Ahmed Haymoudane [ar] denounces the absence of any intention to solve the crisis by the concerned company: | Miampanga ny tsy fisian'ny eritreritra hamaha olana avy amin'ilay orinasa voakasik'izany i Ahmed Haymoudane [ar] : |
19 | There are no signs of solutions so far and that is due to: | Tsy misy hatreto marika ahitàna vahaolana, ary izany dia noho ny : |
20 | - The insistence of SNIM to continue exploiting Mauritanian workers in a way that brings back the memory of African workers exploitation in sugarcane fields in America in previous times. | - Ny fisisihan'ny SNIM hanohy hanararaotra ireo mpiasa Maortaniana amin'ny fomba izay mampitamberina ny fahatsiarovana ny fanararaotana ireo Afrikana mpiasa tany amin'ny toeram-pambolena fary tao Afrika tany aloha tany. |
21 | - The insistence of the workers to go on with their strike and not bow to pressures applied by the company against them threatening to replace them with foreign workers. | - Ny fikirizan'ireo mpiasa hiroso amin'ny fitokonany ary tsy hiforitra amin'ny tsindry ataon'ny orinasa amin'izy ireo amin'ny fandrahonana hanolo azy ireo aminà mpiasa vahiny |
22 | - The insistence of authorities to shut up anyone who raises his voice demanding his rights in the country so that the revolution contagion doesn't spread and things don't get out control. | - Ny filofosan'ireo manampahefana hanakombona ny vavan'izay mampiaka-pe mangataka ny zony eto amin'ny firenena mba tsy hiparitahan'ny areti-mifndran'ny revolisiona ka tsy ho voafehy ny zava-drehetra. |
23 | Alddedd Wald Al Sheikh tweets as well: | Hatramin'i Alddedd Wald Al Sheikh ihany koa no mibitsika: |
24 | @dedda04: Rights revolution and signs of rebellion prevailing in Mauritania are starting to reach the journalia workers | @dedda04: Manomboka mahazo ieo mpiasa jouralia ao Maortania ny revolisiona fitakian-jo sy ny mariky ny fihokoana. |