"There are some demonstrations in the main campus," and authorities used gas to try to clear the area, he said, asking not to be identified.
He said "a few" people were protesting but could not give a more accurate number.
The university is where an unprecedented three weeks of national protests began on June 16, when students first voiced their opposition to high food prices.
After President Omar al-Bashir
Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to
ArabizeDarfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it.
announced austerity measures, including tax hikes and an end to cheap fuel, the protests spread to include a cross-section of people around the capital and in other parts of Sudan.
Often in groups of 100 or 200, they burned tyres, threw stones and blocked roads in a daily call for regime change.
The protests, lately focused on Fridays, have been met by what the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
called a "a violent crackdown."