Washington, 16 March 2018; Employees of South Sudan's embassy at Washington DC went for over a year without receiving their salaries. An employee of South Sudan's embassy in Washington accused the embassy for owing him more than a year's back salary. 

The accusation by local employee at South Sudan's embassy in DC came just a day after the leader of trouble East African country acknowledged the country's central bank has run out of cash.  

South Sudan's President who presides over the inauguration ceremony of new finance minister in the national capital city Juba, on Wednesday openly acknowledged his administration run out of cash, he blamed the trouble of finance on the people whom he referred to as " the people who want to take power by force"  

In January, South Sudan closed its embassy in London after it has failed to pay rental to the landlord for five months. However, officials at South Sudan's embassy in Washington DC said this same scenario will not happen in the DC embassy. 

Despite the officials claim that the London's embassy situation will not happen at South Sudan's Washington DC's embassy, the Embassy's driver, Mr. Manyok Lual, South Sudanese citizen with American dual nationality suggests the embassy is having cash flow problems. 

In an interview with VOA's South Sudan in Focus, Lual, 44, said employees of the embassy went a year without getting paid until this month, when diplomats received two months of salary arrears and local employees like himself received one month. 

"They say we don't have money in the country, the country is at war now ... and just hang on, when we get the money, we will pay you. And it is quite a long time without getting paid," Lual said. 

Multiple sources at the embassy say the country has been paying its rent, but sometimes delays its payments by three to five days. 

The administrator at South Sudan's embassy, Dombek Yai Kuol, declined to comment on Lual's accusations, saying he needs time to contact officials at South Sudan's ministry of foreign affairs and international cooperation. 

Gordon Buay, the deputy head of mission at the embassy, told VOA last year that the embassy uses money collected for issuing visas to pay its employees. 

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