Uganda: No pay rise for teachers

Finance minister Dr. Ezra Suruma in the budget speech shattered teachers' hopes of earning at least sh200,000 as promised by President Yoweri Museveni last year. Suruma instead announced a sh10,000 increment on their current salary of sh130,000. John Situma, the deputy secretary general of the Uganda National Teachers' Union (UNATU)described the increment as a mockery to the teaching profession and an abuse of the President's pledge. In protest, Kampala primary school teachers took to the streets to air their displeasure.