South Darfur employees’ wage backlog up to 10 years

A number of basic school teachers in South Darfur have complained of non-payment of their salaries for two consecutive months. This has highlighted backlogs in payment of wages and entitlements to the state’s teachers, workers and employees, some stretching back 10 years. A teacher at Mershing locality told Radio Dabanga that out of 15 localities, teachers of 12 localities have not received their salaries for the months of July, April and the current month of September. The teachers have been told by the authorities that South Darfur state is short of financial means and that the priority of spending lies with security. The Chairman of the ruling National Congress Party in South Darfur state, Abdelrahman El Zain, acknowledged on Saturday, during a visit by Vice President El Haj Adam Yusif to Nyala, that “there is a problem in the first chapter, namely salaries and wages” in the state. He confirmed that SDG300 billion ($67.5 million) in entitlements of employees and workers’ wages have not been paid for 10 years. File Photo by Albert González Farran/Unamid Related: Teachers’ salaries in South Darfur’s Kalma camp ‘unpaid since 2004’ (17 September 2013) ‘DRA employees not paid since March’: Darfur civil servant (13 September 2013)