Guinea: Students strike following the arrest of a colleague

The students of Gamal Abdel Nasser University in the Guinean capital Conakry have gone on strike to demand the release of a student leader who was arrested on Wednesday. The 14,000 students at Guinea's oldest university were also demanding an improvement in conditions at the cash-strapped university and the settlement of various other grievances. An IRIN correspondent who went to the campus last Thursday found lecture halls empty and no signs of academic activity.