ECW Interviews the Honourable Awut Deng Acuil, Minister of General Education and Instruction for South Sudan ipsnews.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ipsnews.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
An infectious disease specialist takes a sample from Dr Reagan Taban Augustino, now a coronavirus patient himself under quarantine, at the Dr John Garang Infectious Diseases Unit in Juba, South Sudan on June 21, 2020 [File: AP/Charles Atiki Lomodong]
At the height of the pandemic last April, I saw Facebook posts from friends and relatives in South Sudan showing top-level government officials wearing clip-on tags dubbed “virus removal cards”. The cards were said to contain chemicals that could prevent COVID-19.
President Salva Kiir, his deputy, Riek Machar, defence minister Angelina Teny, and other ministers were all spotted wearing the cards.
I was not entirely surprised that a clever entrepreneur was out to make money from the pandemic. In Juba, the cards were selling for between $20 and $30. Elsewhere, similar cards were being sold in Japan, Lebanon, and the Philippines.
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At the height of the pandemic last April, I saw Facebook posts from friends and relatives in South Sudan showing top-level government officials wearing clip-on tags dubbed “virus removal cards”. The cards were said to contain chemicals that could prevent COVID-19.
President Salva Kiir; his deputy, Riek Machar; Defence Minister Angelina Teny; and other ministers were all spotted wearing the cards.
I wasn’t entirely surprised that a clever entrepreneur was out to make money from the pandemic. In Juba, the cards were selling for between $20 and $30. Elsewhere, similar cards were being sold in Japan, Lebanon, and the Philippines.
Rumbek University staff threaten to strike, demand 9-month salary arrears
Lecturers at the Rumbek University of Science and Technology (RUST) after a general assembly meeting on Tuesday threatened to down their tools if the government fails to pay their nine-month salary arrears.
On Monday, the academic staff association and workers union at the University of Bahr-el-Ghazal started a peaceful sit-down strike over unpaid salary arrears.
In an interview with Radio Tamazuj, the chairperson of the steering committee, Mathew Malou Mariec said that the general assembly of academic staff had agreed on the three resolutions, We as members of academic staff in solidarity with other public universities are in demand of our nine (9) months salaries payments for the year,2020 and further adjustments in 2020 budget.