Senegal Varsity Closes Campus, Suspends Student Groups After Protests Turn Deadly

Senegal’s largest university has announced the suspension of student associations following violent protests over unpaid scholarships that resulted in a fatality. Authorities shut the gates and student residences at Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD) in Dakar after a second-year medical student, Abdoulaye Ba, was killed under unclear circumstances during a police intervention. UCAD’s academic council, […]


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