More Darfuri students evicted in Sudan’s capital
On Monday, 36 Darfuri women students were evicted from El Bashayir boarding house in Khartoum. A reason was not provided. In Khartoum North, hundreds of university students protested today against the increase of tuition fees. On 5 October, 70 Darfuri women students were violently evicted by security forces from El Zahra dormitory in Khartoum. Dozens of them were detained. The National Endowment Fund for Students had ordered a group of 70 Darfuri women students to vacate El Zahra boarding house before 25 September, as the facility needed to be vacated for maintenance. The students refused to leave, as they had nowhere else to go. Ten days after their forced eviction, 40 students were offered accommodation in other housing facilities, 28 of them in El Bashayir boarding house. The Darfur Students’ Association accused the authorities in Khartoum of targeting Darfuri students. “Now 36 of them have been expelled again,” Kamal El Zein, the chairman of the Association told Radio Dabanga. “They cannot afford a more expensive commercial accommodation, and the authorities know this well.” He denounced the impunity of the security forces, and also demanded compensation for the 70 evicted students. “They have lost all their belongings during the eviction.” Tuition fees Hundreds of students of El Zaeem El Azhari University in Khartoum North protested today (Tuesday) against the increase of the tuition fees, which amount to SDG1,500 ($260). They carried banners, demanding the cancellation of the fees, and gratis tuition. One of the protesting students told Radio Dabanga that they in particular reject the University’s linking of payment of the tuition fees with the exams. “This deprives the majority of the students of the possibility to sit for their exams, as most of us are really unable to pay this large amount. File photo: Related:Darfuri student suffers after beatings in detention: activist (21 October 2014)Accommodation offered to Darfuri students in Khartoum (15 October 2014) ‘Darfur Regional Authority closed door in our face’: students (13 October 2014) ‘Attack on Darfuri students requires investigation’ (12 October 2014) ‘El Intibaha story about students fabricated’: Darfur lawyers (9 October 2014) Women’s initiative condemns ‘racist attack’ on Darfuri students (9 October 2014) Darfuri students detained in Sudan’s capital (8 October 2014)
On Monday, 36 Darfuri women students were evicted from El Bashayir boarding house in Khartoum. A reason was not provided. In Khartoum North, hundreds of university students protested today against the increase of tuition fees.
On 5 October, 70 Darfuri women students were violently evicted by security forces from El Zahra dormitory in Khartoum. Dozens of them were detained.
The National Endowment Fund for Students had ordered a group of 70 Darfuri women students to vacate El Zahra boarding house before 25 September, as the facility needed to be vacated for maintenance. The students refused to leave, as they had nowhere else to go.
Ten days after their forced eviction, 40 students were offered accommodation in other housing facilities, 28 of them in El Bashayir boarding house.
The Darfur Students’ Association accused the authorities in Khartoum of targeting Darfuri students. “Now 36 of them have been expelled again,” Kamal El Zein, the chairman of the Association told Radio Dabanga. “They cannot afford a more expensive commercial accommodation, and the authorities know this well.”
He denounced the impunity of the security forces, and also demanded compensation for the 70 evicted students. “They have lost all their belongings during the eviction.”
Tuition fees
Hundreds of students of El Zaeem El Azhari University in Khartoum North protested today (Tuesday) against the increase of the tuition fees, which amount to SDG1,500 ($260). They carried banners, demanding the cancellation of the fees, and gratis tuition.
One of the protesting students told Radio Dabanga that they in particular reject the University’s linking of payment of the tuition fees with the exams. “This deprives the majority of the students of the possibility to sit for their exams, as most of us are really unable to pay this large amount.
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Related:
Darfuri student suffers after beatings in detention: activist (21 October 2014)
Accommodation offered to Darfuri students in Khartoum (15 October 2014)
‘Darfur Regional Authority closed door in our face’: students (13 October 2014)
‘Attack on Darfuri students requires investigation’ (12 October 2014)
‘El Intibaha story about students fabricated’: Darfur lawyers (9 October 2014)
Women’s initiative condemns ‘racist attack’ on Darfuri students (9 October 2014)
Darfuri students detained in Sudan’s capital (8 October 2014)
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