Studies suspended after riots - Sudan

The University of Sudan has suspended all diploma courses indefinitely after student riots torched a university building in Khartoum, an official statement said on Monday.

Twenty students were arrested on Sunday after a group of demonstrators set fire to a building, demanding that their engineering diplomas be upgraded to a degree.

"A group of students insisted on obstructing studies by forcing sit-ins that on Sunday escalated into subversion and arson," said a statement from the university's director of Science and Technology, Ahmed al-Tayeb Ahmed.

He added that "deliberately" setting fire to the building was "criminal behaviour unbecoming to university students", who should be held legally accountable for their actions.

As a result of the violence, the university suspended both two- and three-year diploma programmes indefinitely as of August 4 "to guarantee the safety of students, university property and the stability of studies in other programmes," the statement said.

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