Several Secondary School students in Juba have clashed with police during demonstrations, as the students demanded that their teachers' salaries should be paid.

The students have gone without lessons in the past two weeks due to a strike held by teachers in protest over the non-payment of their salaries.

The demonstrators were drawn from schools in Juba, and were marching to the Central Equatoria State Ministry of Education to find out why their teachers' salaries are not paid.

The demonstrating students met with police patrol vehicles at the Muduria roundabout, where the clashes took place.

The students threw stones at the police, while the police responded with teargas.

"The students threw stones at a pickup full of police, after the driver refused to give way to the students," the headmaster of the Juba Day Secondary School, David Loila, said.

Speaking to Miraya FM, Mr. Loila said that a meeting with the Minister of Education in the Central Equatoria State decided that the teachers' salaries will be paid.

However, the Central Equatira State's Minister of Education, Steven Lamin, confirmed that the teachers have not been paid their salaries of the last two months, because the State is still waiting for a report which aims to screen ghost teachers from the payroll.