Postal employees return to work

Postal employees returned to work on Wednesday after striking for better pay and benefits, AFP reported. The workers, who earn the local equivalent of between US $10 and $20 a month, were also demanding more promotions and medical benefits. Leaders of the Union of Postal and Telecommunications Services, which called the strike, refused to say whether they obtained the workers' demands. The managing director of the postal service, Kanji Darame, said the service had been paying workers despite the bloody rebel invasion of the capital on 6 January which destroyed public infrastructure and which, analysts said, left the country broke.