Kenya’s lecturers strike over unfulfilled pay deal

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Nairobi – Kenyan lecturers in public universities have launched a strike to protest against what they call the government’s continued failure to implement a March deal to boost salaries and housing allowances.

This handout photograph released by The Presidential Service Communication Unit (PSCU) shows Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta (L) watched by Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiangi as he addresses media representatives outside his office in Nairobi on August 14, 2017.

The strike piles pressure on the government after a strike by nurses in public hospitals over the past few months has paralyzed health care services countrywide.

It also worsens the plight of more than half a million students in 31 public universities, since the lecturers ended a 54-day strike over pay in February and signed a pact with the government in March.

“All academic staff at the 31 public…



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