Hundreds of students were arrested on Friday during a raid of dormitories at the University of Khartoum, in Sudan, according to Reuters. The university has been closed for about two months while students protested rising prices and unemployment. But many students had refused to leave the residence halls, some because they had nowhere else to go. The raids occurred before dawn, while students were sleeping. One student group said 317 students had been arrested.
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