University students protest in solidarity with unpaid staff

Students of the Rumbek University of Science and Technology (RUST) in South Sudan on Monday 4 November staged a peaceful demonstration within their campus, demanding 10 months’ pay arrears for the academic staff of the institution, reports Radio Tamazuj.

The president of the student’s guild, Sabit Job Reec, told Radio Tamazuj that they had issued a seven-day ultimatum to the national ministries of higher education and finance and planning to clear the 10-months’ arrears for the academic and the non-academic staff or face a massive protest.

“I am here with [the] executive of the students’ union to present the concerns. We are not having lectures and there is no food on the campus,” he said. “The families of the members of staff are suffering and we want the government to pay them.”
Full report on the Radio Tamazuj site