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Teachers warn: Khartoum still a war zone

In a statement issued Sunday, the committee said the directive, which compels administrative and support staff to resume work and requires teachers to return a week before the school year starts, ignores the catastrophic conditions in the capital. 

by Sudans Post
June 16, 2025
Volunteers dig graves in Sudan, amid a bloody conflict that’s killed hundreds, in a photo taken by Dr. Noah Madni near Khartoum on April 25, 2023.

KHARTOUM – The Sudanese Teachers’ Committee has condemned a recent decision by Khartoum State de facto authorities requiring public sector employees to return to work starting June 15, saying the capital remains too dangerous and uninhabitable due to widespread insecurity, damaged infrastructure, and lack of basic services.

In a statement issued Sunday, the committee said the directive, which compels administrative and support staff to resume work and requires teachers to return a week before the school year starts, ignores the catastrophic conditions in the capital.

“Khartoum is not fit for life at the moment due to the proliferation of weapons, collapse of security, and the absence of life;s essentials,” the statement said.

The state government’s announcement ends a two-year forced leave that began after the outbreak of war in April 2023, which displaced millions and led to the shutdown of public institutions.

But the teachers’ committee rejected the move, citing widespread displacement and the lack of salary payments for education workers. “Education staff have been scattered between areas of displacement and asylum,” the statement read. “Their suffering has deepened with the suspension of salaries, and Khartoum state has not issued any clarification on when wages will be paid.”

The committee warned that workers in education are facing hunger, disease, and homelessness as a result. It described the order to partially return as “a righteous phrase applied in distorted reality.”

The group also raised serious safety concerns, saying many schools had been damaged or destroyed during the conflict, and that unexploded ordnance and human remains remain on school grounds. “Some schools have turned into mass graves,” the statement noted. “Bodies have not been moved to public cemeteries, nor have the schools been disinfected.”

Khartoum authorities have not announced any engineering assessments to evaluate the safety of school buildings, the committee said.

The timing of the decision was also questioned, as it coincides with a fresh outbreak of cholera. “The return order comes while cholera is spreading, and the health authorities have not declared the epidemic under control. This reflects a disregard for the lives of students, teachers, and workers,” the committee warned.

The statement also described the collapse of public services in most neighborhoods of the capital, including the absence of clean water, electricity, cooking gas, healthcare, food supplies, and public transportation.

It further noted a sharp deterioration in the environmental and health situation, citing the spread of rabid dogs, cats, and rodents due to the presence of unburied bodies over the past two years. “There has also been a surge in mosquitos and other disease-carrying insects, and the government has not issued any detailed report on the health situation,” the committee added.

The group emphasized that these factors pose serious barriers to the return of children, teachers, and families to their homes in Khartoum. They also noted that the state has not paid past salaires to enable workers to return.

The committee said the decision violates labor laws, which require a safe working environment and regular salary payments, and contradicts International Labour Organization conventions ratified by Sudan.

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