Juba and Upper Nile medicine Students at Khartoum colleges said they were assured that the 160 students would be relocated to South Sudan before the voter registration begins on November 14.
A delegation of some 30 South Sudan students studying medicine in Khartoum came to Juba on Sunday to meet government officials to ask for their immediate revocation to the South.The students told SCR News that GoSS undersecretary for Higher Education assured them of the immediate relocation.
They said that next semester’s exams were being politicized in order to keep the students in Khartoum up to the referendum vote.
The students stated that they would not risk continuing their studies in Khartoum and demanded their semester exams to be conducted in Juba.