Guinea-Bissau's government has ordered the suspension of teachers' salaries to weed out fraudulent claims on the payroll from fictitious workers, according to a statement released on Thursday.
The tiny West African country that depends largely on external aid to meet salaries in the education sector, has declared a war on ghost civil servants in order to curb its wage bill.
The decision will affect some 8,000 teachers in the country's primary and secondary schools who earn on average around 50,000 CFA francs per month. The decision drew threats of action from a teaching union.
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