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Leadership by Example: Cote d’Ivoire’s Ministers Slash their Wages to End Strike

Posted by Guest Author on July 21, 2008
Filed in: Community Report, Cote D’Ivoire, Feature, Positive Africa
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Government slashes ministers\' wages to pay for gasoline (petrol) subsidy and end strike in Ivory Coast.
The government, which has been subsidising fuel prices for the past three years, removed these subsidies on 6 July because it could no longer afford to keep them in place. As a result the price of a litre of fuel rose by 29 percent in 24 hours, and the price of diesel by 44 percent.