Foreign aid workers heading to South Sudan will have to fork up to $10,000 in order to obtain work permits, the country’s government has comfirmed.
The government says the reason for the big hike in the fees is to enable it raise more money outside of its mainstay oil industry.
Just two weeks after the United Nations declared a famine in parts of the country, President Salva Kiir promised that his government will give full access to aid workers who wish to go to different regiopns of the country.
With the full access however, the foreigners will have to pay much more than the $100 dollars that they currently pay.
Even foreign casual labourers that wish to work in South Sudan will not be spared, as they too will now have to pay $1,000 dollars.
South Sudan citizens are also to be affected, as they will have to form out more money to to obtain birth certificates and passports.
The government says it’s merely implementing new financial legislation, passed by Parliament in February.
