{{Sudanese security authorities arrested the chairman of the opposition coalition National Consensus Forces (NCF), Farouq Abu Issa, following his participation on Thursday in a forum held to protest the alleged murder of four students from the country\u2019s western region of Darfur.}}<\/p>\n
In his address to the event that was held at the headquarters of the National Umma Party (NUP) in Omdurman, Abu Issa strongly criticized the government over the death of the students on 7 December, and demanded an immediate and urgent investigation into the incident that occurred at Al-Gazira University in Madani town, where the victims\u2019 bodies were found in a canal after they were attacked by security forces and loyalists of the ruling National Congress Party (NCP).<\/p>\n
Activists say the students were killed against the background of their participation in protests against the refusal of the university\u2019s administration to waive the tuition fees of Darfuri students as arguably agreed under the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD).<\/p>\n
The incident sparked a wave of demonstrations across Sudanese universities and a heavy crackdown by the authorities which arrested dozens of protesters.<\/p>\n
The opposition figure said that the \u201cdawn of change\u201d is nearing and that the regime is increasingly losing control of the situation. He also said that the NCF intends to hold a big event to discuss the issue of the conflict- plagued Darfur \u201cso we don\u2019t hit the secession wall again\u201d in reference to South Sudan. He further accused the NCP of seeking to divide and fragment the country.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for Darfur Students Association announced during the symposium that thousands of students are ready to take to the streets and remove the regime of the NCP which \u201cexacerbates ethnic tendencies\u201d<\/p>\n
Earlier on Tuesday, Abu Issa participated in a sit-in at the headquarters of the Sudanese Congress Party (SCP) to protest the death of the citizens. He also held a press conference in which he called for another sit-in to be held at Khartoum University the following day but the protest did not take place due to the heavy presence of security authorities around the university.<\/p>\n
The leader of the NCF, a coalition comprising mainstream opposition parties including the NUP and the Islamist Popular Congress Party (PCP), was briefly detained in October by the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) which accused him of seeking foreign assistance to fund opposition activities, a charge he denies.<\/p>\n
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