Sudan teachers go on strike over meagre salaries and dilapidated schools

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Khartoum, Sudan – For 26 years, Amal Suleiman Ahmed al-Haj has worked as a secondary school teacher in Sudan. But her monthly salary of 132,000 Sudanese pounds ($13.20) only covers her family’s basic needs for a few days. Just buying a cooking gas cylinder will set her back about 170,000 pounds ($17). With teachers in Khartoum State no longer paid enough to survive, they have gone on strike for a third week. “My salary does not cover even a quarter of our needs. It may not last a family more than three or four days,” Amal told Al Jazeera. “Teachers are extremely exhausted and have to find other jobs in the evenings to supplement their income. In reality, we have become secondary workers in the education sector.