Kenya airport staff end strike

Kenyan aviation workers have called off a strike that paralysed the country's main international airport for two days, the civil aviation authority said Tuesday.

Thousands of passengers were stranded in the capital Nairobi and at other airports around the east African country on Sunday and Monday as workers staged a go-slow protest.

It was the latest in a series of strikes and threatened shutdowns by aviation unions demanding a new collective bargaining agreement and an end to the use of volunteer staff.

The Kenya Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement that an agreement had been reached to move forward negotiations on the bargaining agreement and that "non-victimisation of employees arising from the industrial action".

Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi is a major regional hub and vital to Kenya's tourism trade.