A video showing the dean of a prominent Sudanese women’s university beating female students protesting against high food prices has gone viral, sparking outrage on social media Thursday. The footage showed Qassim Badri, dean of Khartoum-based Ahfad University for Women, walking into a crowd of female students on campus and slapping one and beating another repeatedly. More students then surrounded him, with one even hitting him as others shouted slogans with their hands raised, the video showed. “The video tells only one side of the story,” family member Balkis Badri, a professor at the university, told AFP. She said the incident occurred when the dean approached the students to talk to them as some protesters called for setting university buildings on fire.

Source: Punch January 11, 2018 12:22 UTC