Military service personnel in South Darfur unpaid for five months

22/01/2014 18:09

Personnel doing their compulsory military service in the Ministries of Health and Education in South Darfur have not received salaries for five months. The director of the South Darfur Distribution and Emergency Department of the National Compulsory Service, Ibrahim Madda, reported that 610 military service personnel, mostly from other Darfur states, have not received their salaries since five months. Of those, 450 were deployed to the Ministry of Education, and 160, including 27 doctors, to health facilities in South Darfur. File photo: A clinic in Zamzam camp, North Darfur (Albert González Farran/Unamid)

Personnel doing their compulsory military service in the Ministries of Health and Education in South Darfur have not received salaries for five months.

The director of the South Darfur Distribution and Emergency Department of the National Compulsory Service, Ibrahim Madda, reported that 610 military service personnel, mostly from other Darfur states, have not received their salaries since five months. Of those, 450 were deployed to the Ministry of Education, and 160, including 27 doctors, to health facilities in South Darfur.

File photo: A clinic in Zamzam camp, North Darfur (Albert González Farran/Unamid)