By JOSEPH ODUHA, AFRICAREVIEW
In Summary
South Sudan will review the revised work permit fee for foreigners.
Cabinet Affairs Minister Elia Lomoro said Tuesday that the
government had already formed a committee headed by the Finance Ministry
to re-analyse the order.
Juba recently raised the charges from $100 to $10,000, sparking a
flurry of complaints, especially from aid agencies operating in the
country.
Dr Lomoro said that the committee reviewing the directive was ready to submit its findings.
“The information I have from the Ministry of Finance is that
they were ready to submit their report. We will get the report and
revisit the matter, and develop a mechanism on how to address it,” he
said.
The Minister said that Juba was looking into the concerns raised
by aid agencies, adding that the matter would be sorted out soon in
order to safeguard the mutual relations between the young nation and the
humanitarian community.
“We are gauging the challenges so that we are within the context
of the region; we have requested our colleagues in the region to give
us a little more time to address the matter,” he said.
The UN humanitarian co-ordinator for South Sudan, Eugene Owusu,
said that most foreigners working in South Sudan are aid workers, and
that increasing work permit fees was unfair since the personnel were
delivering assistance to South Sudanese citizens who currently rely on
it to survive.
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