Professors and lecturers in South Sudan's five public universities are threatening to go on strike Wednesday unless the government pays their back salaries for the past three months and other benefits for the past year.
South Sudan's undersecretary of higher education said his ministry is aware of the university employee demands, but the government is too broke to come up with the money. Representatives of South Sudan's universities called a news conference Tuesday in Juba to announce the strike.
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