SOUTH SUDAN: Catholic University -Wau Campus resumes lectures; Vice Chancellor clarifies

Catholic
University of South Sudan campus in Wau has resumed lectures after few days of
strike. Vice Chancellor, Fr. Mathew Pagan, said that student’s demands were contained,
Radio Bakhita reported.
“Economic
crisis have come and bites everybody, we need also to increase the fees in
order to cope up with the situation,” he explained.
The Vice
Chancellor disclosed that the problem of insufficient lecturers was a general
issue on which the university was looking for possible ways of resolving the
situation.
“The issue
will be resolved, they are not big problems, they are just internal problems,”
Fr. Pagan explained in a telephone interview adding that “You have all the
rights of expressing your demands but this should not interfere other people’s
rights.”
The Vice
Chancellor was responding to students’ recent strike in Wau against increment
of fees.
Meanwhile, the Catholic Radio Network (CRN)
is training Anisa Radio Journalists in Yambio on professional news writing.
CRN media
trainer Ilona Eveleens, during the first session said that people trust journalists
only when they perform their duties responsibly. She urged the journalists to
cross-check their sources of information and balance the stories. She also
challenged media personnel to do their work very well.
According to
Fr Elario Bazia Zambakari, the Director of Anisa Radio, the training aimed at building
the capacity of the staff, as he pledged that his administration will
frequently organize similar trainings.
CRN Director
Enrica Valentini also made her first visit to the station. She explained that it
is her responsibility to go on the ground to understand what people are doing.
Source: CRN

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