Students end strike

High school and university students in Burkina Faso decided on Tuesday to resume classes after a two-week interruption, AFP quoted the Association nationale des Etudiants burkinabe (ANEB) as announcing on Tuesday. The government had closed schools on 13 April following demonstrations marked by violence in Ouagadougou and other towns. The demonstrations occurred during a general strike launched on 10 April by a group of opposition parties, trade unions and NGOs known as 'Le Collectif' in protest against the lack of progress in the investigations into the death of Norbert Zongo, an independent journalist murdered in December 1998. The government reopened the schools on 17 April, but secondary and university students refused to attend classes unless students jailed during the protests along with the main leaders of the Collectif were released. ANEB decided at a general assembly to go back to classes after the students, who had remained in custody even after the liberation of the Collectif's leaders on 15 April, were finally freed, AFP reported.