Student Deaths Threaten To Renew Sudan Unrest

The death of four students, allegedly at the hands of security forces, risks unleashing a new wave of anti-government unrest as Sudan struggles to contain internal divisions and a growing economic crisis, Reem Abbas writes from Khartoum.
Students demonstrate, calling for the release from detention of Talafon Kuku Abu-Jalaha, a leading figure in the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), outside the UN building in Khartoum March 26, 2012. Abu-Jalaha was arrested by the government of South Sudan on April 21, 2010. Reuters/Stringer (Sudan - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST EDUCATION)
Students demonstrate, calling for the release from detention of Talafon Kuku Abu-Jalaha, a leading figure in the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), outside the UN building in Khartoum, March 26, 2012. - Reuters

A week ago [Dec. 7], dozens of students from Al-Jazeera University, 300 kilometers (186 miles) from Khartoum, camped in front of the morgue of Medani Hospital in Wad-Medani, the capital of Al-Jazeera state, guarding the corpses of two students. 

Earlier that day, the bodies of the two first-year agricultural-studies students, Adil Hamad and Mohamed Younis, were found in a sewage pond not far from the university.

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