Police, students clash in protests over price rises

reuters.com

By Opheera McDoom

KHARTOUM, Jan 13 (Reuters) – Sudanese students clashed with police for a second day on Thursday over price rises, witnesses said, rare public protests which have broken out in the north of Africa’s largest country as the south votes to seceede.

Students held protests in the universities of Khartoum and Gezira in the north’s agricultural heartland on Wednesday against proposed cuts in subsidies in petroleum products and sugar, a strategic commodity in Sudan.

Five people were slightly hurt and an unknown number arrested in the Khartoum protest, a student said.

« The security forces were already there with a very, very heavy presence, » said journalism student al-Fadil Ali.

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Sudan: rivolta del pane, scontri tra studenti e polizia

agi.it

13 GEN 2011

(AGI) Khartoum – Dopo il Maghreb, la rivolta del ‘pane’ arriva nel nord Sudan, gia’ alla prese con il referendum per la secessione del sud. A Khartoum e Gezira gli studenti si sono scontrati con la polizia durante alcune manifestazioni di protesta contro il caro-prezzi e il taglio di sussidi destinati ai generi di prima necessita’, come lo zucchero e i prodotti petroliferi. Nell’universita’ della capitale, i poliziotti hanno picchiato decine di studenti, secondo quanto riferito dai ragazzi, arrestandone un numero ancora imprecisato. .

~ par Alain Bertho sur 14 janvier 2011.

Publié dans émeutes, riots