The state-run radio in Raja County of Western Bahr al Ghazal is off-air after casual employees and volunteers reportedly stopped work to protest non-payment of allowances by local authorities.
The striking journalists also complained that they served for years without official employment by the public service department.
Raja County Commissioner Hassan Jalab told Radio Tamazuj the authorities used to pay the contributors some allowances generated by county revenues.
“The protesters came to me, and I told them that you go back to your work and the government is working on the issue of allowances” he said. “They refused what I told them and preferred to remain at home, but I know it is their rights.”
Jalab urged the public service department to accelerate permanent hiring of the station’s volunteers and support staff so that programming can resume.