culled from allaafrica.com


Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has expressed his regret over the
Wednesday death of a student, Balla Gueye, during clashes between security
forces and protesting students at Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD) in
Dakar.

Wade also said he deplored the unexpected turn of events taken by the
students' movement, saying that the students should have requested an
audience with him to make known their demands.

Just as he did with students of the University of Saint- Louis whom he
received alongside the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the second
Senegalese university, Wade said he was prepared to meet with the UCAD
student leaders to discuss their problems.

The president, speaking during an audience with members of the Front for
Change, a coalition of parties which helped him to the presidency in March
2000, called on the gathering to observe a minute of silence in memory of
Gueye.


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