SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga - Darfuri students continue sit-in in Khartoum

29/11/19: Radio Dabanga - Darfuri students continue sit-in in Khartoum

 Radio Dabanga reports on the fourth day of the sit-in by Darfuri students from the Northern state's Dongola University in front of the Ministry of Higher Education in Khartoum against “racist practices” by the university administration.

The issue began when the university administration demanded that the students form a student committee to negotiate with the university administration about their complaints concerning the shortage of lecturers and badly equipped training units.

 When the students did so, the administration accused four Darfuri members of the committee of “inciting” the other students to complain. In response, more than 200 students from the Faculty of Computer Science at Dongola University resigned.

 Radio Dabanga’s sources have reported that a group of residents attacked Darfuri students after a quarrel between two students about whether or not the sit-in should be broken up.