culled from allafrica.com



A student at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar (UCAD) died Wednesday
after fellow students and the security forces violently clashed during a
demonstration, medical sources said Thursday.

Balla Gueye, a first year law student, died of his injuries following
clashes at the campus entrance gate between the students and the police who
were trying to disperse the protestors, witnesses said.

According to the Senegalese Press Agency, many students sustained injuries
during the face-off which led to substantial damage of property in the
five-hour encounter.

A bus belonging to the public transport company Dakar Dem Dikk was burned,
an office of the Senegalese National Lottery Agency was ransacked and the
Centre for Student and Professional Orientation was severely damaged during
the bloody protests, the agency said.

Heavy security remained in place around the campus all afternoon Wednesday,
it added.

The students have been on strike since 12 January demanding, among other
things, the granting of additional scholarships, laboratory equipment as
well as the granting of full scholarships (rather than half scholarships) to
all post-graduate students.

Meanwhile, the executive committee of the Independent Union of University
Lecturers strongly condemned Gueye's death. The committee has demanded an
investigation into the incident.


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