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Iraqi civil servants demand more pay as inflation skyrockets
Amid heavy security deployment, thousands of public sector employees took to the streets in the Iraqi capital on Wednesday, calling on the Iraqi parliament to increase their pay by including the new salary system in the ongoing negotiations on the 2023 budget bill. Since 2008, Iraq has not amended salaries for the public sector, despite inflation rising to seven per cent in 2023, according to data by the planning ministry.  The protestors, including thousands of school teachers, entered Baghdad's fortified Green Zone, which houses government headquarters, the parliament and most foreign diplomatic missions. Iraqi security forces arrested several protest organisers, an

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