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Labour Day
International Workers' Day
Celebration date
May 1
Geographic reach
44 countries
Celebrated in 44 countries
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Algeria
May 1
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Angola
May 1
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Benin
May 1
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Botswana
May 1
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Burkina Faso
May 1
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Burundi
May 1
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Cape Verde
May 1
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Cameroon
May 1
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Central African Republic
May 1
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Chad
May 1
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Comoros
May 1
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Congo
May 1
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DRCongo
May 1
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Côte d'Ivoire
May 1
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Djibouti
May 1
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Equatorial Guinea
May 1
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Eritrea
May 1
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Eswatini
May 1
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Gabon
May 1
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Gambia
May 1
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Guinea
May 1
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Guinea-Bissau
May 1
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Kenya
May 1
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Libya
May 1
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Madagascar
May 1
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Malawi
May 1
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Mali
May 1
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Mauritania
May 1
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Mauritius
May 1
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Morocco
May 1
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Mozambique
May 1
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Niger
May 1
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Rwanda
May 1
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Sao Tome and Principe
May 1
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Senegal
May 1
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Seychelles
May 1
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Sierra Leone
May 1
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Somalia
May 1
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South Sudan
May 1
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Tanzania
May 1
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Togo
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Tunisia
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Uganda
May 1
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Zambia
May 1
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What this holiday commemorates
- 1947 Mbiyu Koinange departs for England to represent the Kenya African Union, presenting land petitions and pressing for colonial constitutional reform. · Kenya
- 1952 Joseph Murumbi returns to Kenya following the restoration of Italian authority in Somalia, and is introduced to the Kenya African Union (KAU) leadersh... · Kenya
- 1960 Njoroge Mungai appointed secretary to the preparatory committee that founds the Kenya African National Union (KANU), Kenya's dominant political party. · Kenya
- 1960 Tom Mboya helps form the Kenya African National Union and assumes office as its first Secretary-General. · Kenya
- 1962 1st French underground nuclear test in the Sahara at Ecker, Algeria. · Algeria
- 1963 (c.) Richard Achieng Oneko wins the Nakuru Town Constituency parliamentary seat, demonstrating trans-ethnic appeal in a cosmopolitan urban center outside h... · Kenya
- 1963 Paul Ngei leads the African People's Party to major electoral victories across Ukambani during Kenya's pre-independence elections. · Kenya
- 1968 Godfrey Binaisa resigns as Attorney General following disagreements with Obote over presidential detention powers, which he views as an erosion of con... · Uganda
- 1970 (c.) Major General Joseph Ndolo asks Yatta MP Gideon Munyao Mutiso to draft a political manifesto justifying a military takeover. · Kenya
- 1970 (c.) Cyrille Adoula falls ill, prompting President Mobutu to take over the foreign affairs portfolio and initiating Adoula's retirement. · Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 1978 (c.) Clemens Kapuuo's murder cited by Pretoria as justification for Operation Reindeer, the largest South African airborne offensive since World War II, wh... · Angola
- 1980 Charles Njonjo elected unopposed to the National Assembly for the Kikuyu Constituency in a by-election held after the sitting MP's resignation. · Kenya
- 1999 Paul Ngei and his family evicted from their Garden Estate home after court-ordered auction proceedings. · Kenya