Operations resumed Thursday at South Sudan’s Juba International Airport following a one day strike which held up many international and domestic flights.
Some 700 airport staff downed their tools Wednesday saying they had not been paid salaries for four months. Flights from Kenya, Ethiopia, and Egypt could not land in Juba yesterday due to the work stoppage.
The ministry of finance reportedly promised to pay the airport staff for two months’ salary today in order to get the airport running again.
A source said President Salva Kiir previously approved nine months’ salaries for the airport staff but it was not clear what happened to the funds.
Other sources said the airport also had no power due to lack of fuel.