Guinea: Public servants get 50% salary rise

  1. Posted on Tuesday 2 March 2010 - 09:56
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    Kingsley Kobo, AfricaNews reporter in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
    Guinea's government on Monday announced a 50% increase in the salaries of public servants across the country. The move, according to a statement broadcast on state TV, is aimed at softening the impact of a 30 percent increase in fuel prices, and to relieve the suffering of public servants.
    Guinea map
    A government employee in Guinea earns an average salary of $67.

    The statement mentioned modalities of the salary increase which will be applied systematically in the months of March and July.

    During the month of March transport and rent allowances will be increased by 30 percent while pensions will also be revised upwards by 30 percent.

    Guinea, a top bauxite and aluminium producer, is recovering gradually from a political crisis sparked off by the killing of some 150 opposition protesters at a Conakry stadium in September 2009 by the ruling military junta then headed by Dadis Camara, who was later shot and wounded by one of his guards and now in exile in Burkina Faso after receiving treatments in Morocco.

    Former vice president and defence minister Sekouba Konate now rules the West African nation with a civilian Prime Minister Jean Marie Dore following a peace deal brokered in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou by President Blaise Campaore.

    General elections are expected in six months.

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