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Burundi: Nurses On Strike
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Burundi Réalités (Bujumbura)
31 October 2007
Posted to the web 31 October 2007
Bujumbura
Nurses have started a strike despite the talks with the health minister. Leaders of their trade union (SYNAPA) indicate that their problem must be treated in extraordinary cabinet meeting in order to include their demands in the annual budget which has reached an advanced level in the finance ministry.
Burundi is caught up in a swirl of strikes. The hopes that the current government has inspired at the beginning with the free primary school education, and free medical assistance to children of less than five years, are fading.
The promise to increase the salaries of civil servants that was made on First May 2007 and that the government of Burundi has failed to implement has triggered an overwhelmingly rise of prices of all products on the domestic market and drastically impacted negatively on households' incomes.
Most of the trade unions that went on strike during the month of October were demanding the implementation of agreements that were reached six or 3 years ago during the transition. These governments having nothing to offer and hoping for sweet international cooperation days after the transition promised the adjustment of civil servants' salaries as a response to the demands.
The CNDD-FDD -led government has run out of all excuses.
Although it inherited the problems bequeathed by the transitional governments, it also had many chances to fix them.
The international community resumed the financial backing to the government of Burundi after the smooth transition which paved the path to democratically elected institutions.
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Donors have however shied away to disburse funds after a series of blunders including economic crimes that government of Burundi is reluctantly trying to solve.
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