Sudanese Teachers Committee Holds Finance Minister Responsible for Salary Delays

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The Sudanese Teachers Committee has held Sudan’s Finance Minister fully responsible for delays in teachers’ salaries, the withholding of Eid grants and arrears, and what it described as humiliating disparities in payments across Sudanese states.

In a statement issued on Saturday, the committee said Eid was approaching while salaries remained unpaid or were being disbursed in “meager and incomplete” amounts. It noted that a teacher at entry level receives only 60,000 Sudanese pounds — about 14 US dollars — while a senior first-grade teacher with more than 30 years of service receives around 220,000 pounds, or approximately 53 dollars.

The committee stated that teachers in Kassala State had yet to receive their April salaries, while payments related to the 2026 Sudanese secondary school examinations in Al Jazirah State had been delayed for more than a month. It added that salary arrears had accumulated to 14 months in Al Jazirah, Central Darfur, and Blue Nile states, and around 10 months in Khartoum and Sennar, with similar conditions reported across Darfur and Kordofan.

The statement accused the finance minister of shifting responsibility for salaries to state governments “to evade federal responsibility,” adding that the silence and inaction of state authorities amounted to “full complicity in this ongoing crime against teachers and their families.”

The committee also confirmed that protests already launched in Northern State and Kassala would expand to other states, including Al Jazirah, White Nile, Blue Nile, and Khartoum, as well as Darfur and Kordofan, until teachers’ rights are fully secured.

It warned that depriving teachers’ families of the joy of Eid after months of hunger, delayed wages, and hardship constituted “a complete moral, humanitarian, and political crime,” cautioning that the continued crisis could trigger “an explosion of legitimate anger” among teachers across the country.