Ugandan students to leave Egypt
Feb 03, 2011
UGANDA students in Egyptian universities are to be evacuated following political unrest in the country.
Ugandan students to
be evacuated from Egypt
By Vision Reporters
UGANDA students in Egyptian universities are to be evacuated following political unrest in the country.
The 43 students benefiting from scholarships granted through the Ministry of Education and Sports are expected into the country tomorrow aboard a Kenya Airways flight, the Acting Principal Assistant Secretary in the ministry, Kitonsa Kajoba said yesterday.
Government is spending $860 on a return ticket per student.
Mass demonstrations kicked off in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, last week when tens of thousands of outraged Egyptian protestors, mostly youth, inspired by the popular protests in Tunisia, took to streets, asking President Hosni Mubarak and the government to step down.
The 82-year-old Mubarak, whom critics accuse of dictatorship and mismanaging the country, has ruled Egypt for 30 years. This has been the largest demonstration since he was sworn in 1981.
By Monday, the death toll in Cairo had reached 1590 while over 4,000 people had been injured in the clashes.
A new Egyptian cabinet was sworn in on Monday, after the resignation on Saturday of the previous one on Mubarak’s orders.
Egypt’s new vice-president, Omar Suleiman, said on Monday that Mubarak had tasked him with holding dialogue with the opposition.
be evacuated from Egypt
By Vision Reporters
UGANDA students in Egyptian universities are to be evacuated following political unrest in the country.
The 43 students benefiting from scholarships granted through the Ministry of Education and Sports are expected into the country tomorrow aboard a Kenya Airways flight, the Acting Principal Assistant Secretary in the ministry, Kitonsa Kajoba said yesterday.
Government is spending $860 on a return ticket per student.
Mass demonstrations kicked off in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, last week when tens of thousands of outraged Egyptian protestors, mostly youth, inspired by the popular protests in Tunisia, took to streets, asking President Hosni Mubarak and the government to step down.
The 82-year-old Mubarak, whom critics accuse of dictatorship and mismanaging the country, has ruled Egypt for 30 years. This has been the largest demonstration since he was sworn in 1981.
By Monday, the death toll in Cairo had reached 1590 while over 4,000 people had been injured in the clashes.
A new Egyptian cabinet was sworn in on Monday, after the resignation on Saturday of the previous one on Mubarak’s orders.
Egypt’s new vice-president, Omar Suleiman, said on Monday that Mubarak had tasked him with holding dialogue with the opposition.