Closure of Khartoum university following student clashes
Sudan, Local, 11/15/2002

The president of Khartoum University yesterday issued a decision to close the university because of the acts of unrest took part in it.

A statement issue by the university's vice president Abdul Malik Muhammad Abdul Rahman said that the university's administration decided to "close it immediately for the safety of citizens and to preserve the buildings." On Wednesday, simultaneously, riot acts erupted in several faculties belong to Khartoum University in Um Durman and in Khartoum where "bloody clashed took place in which the students used knives and Molotove bombs against each other, " according to the statement.

Eye witnesses said that the interference of the police resulted in halting the clashes between students belonging to opposition parties and their colleagues from the ruling National Congress party.

The witnesses added that students from the opposition parties tried to prevent their colleagues from the ruling National Congress party to enter the halls of the faculty of education to force them to join what seemed to be a strike.

The University's vice president said that the students set fire on Wednesday in the office of the financial aid in the faculty of education in Um Durman. He added that the students of the faculty of education "attacked Imam of the faculty's mosque and beat the official for the residents who was admitted to hospital for medical treatment."

Abdul Rahman continued that the clashes later on expanded to Khartoum University where clashes took place between the students of the faculties of agriculture, veterinary and forestry where many of them were wounded and admitted to the hospital.

Worthy mentioning that the faculties of Khartoum University which includes 18,000 students is distributed on four areas: two in the downtown of the city, one in Um Durman and the fourth in Khartoum Bahri.

The director of the Financial Aid office at the faculty of education, Hussein Suleiman Muhammad, told journalists that the difference between the students and the Financial Aid office was politically motivated.

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