NCP students injure others at Sudan’s Kordofan University

At least seven students of the University of Kordofan in En Nahud, North Kordofan, allegedly have been seriously injured on Thursday, 7 November, when they were assaulted by students adhering to the ruling National Congress Party (NCP). A student told Radio Dabanga that a number of students had organised a sit-in within the premises of the University out of protest against the decision of the management forbidding women to sell food in front of the university. The students were supposed to buy their meal in one of the university’s cafeterias. The students organised a sit-in because the meals offered by the university’s cafeterias cost SDG7 ($1.60), while the meals sold by the women cost the students SDG3 ($0.70). Thereupon the NCP students attacked them with machetes, knives and batons. Seven students were wounded and had to be transferred to the hospital of En Nahud for treatment. The protesting students went out for a demonstration from the university to the hospital, where security forces blocked them by using tear gas. File photo