JUBA, Feb. 13 (Xinhau) -- South Sudan said on Wednesday it will tax all civil servants' salaries as it seeks funds to implement the peace agreement signed by warring parties in September 2018.
Michael Makuei Lueth, minister of information, said they are seeking over 44 billion South Sudanese pounds (285 million U.S. dollars) in order to implement peace agreement.
"The cabinet also decided that all the employees in the public sector should monthly contribute a one-day pay from their salaries for the next four months in the interest of the peace because peace has a value and if we need peace then definitely must contribute towards peace," he told journalists in Juba.
He also appealed to the private sector and civil society organizations including international community to contribute toward supporting peace.
"Not that only, but the cabinet is also making an appeal to the business sector and to the civil society organs, to the stakeholders, to contribute towards the implementation of this peace," he said.
South Sudan descended into civil war in late 2013, and the conflict has created one of the fastest growing refugee crises in the world.
The UN estimates that about four million South Sudanese have been displaced internally and externally. In September 2018, South Sudan's conflicting parties signed a peace deal in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.
