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The bypass north (Vcn), a hilly road around the city of Thiès on its northern side to join the Rn 3, spreads as far as the eye can see. On its left flank, just near the Ecole polytechnique stands the University of Thies, in the heart of the Sapco district. The site houses two training and research units: The Ufr Economic and Social Sciences (Ses), Science and Technology (Set). And state yards. On the sign with blue-sky paintings struck with the colors of the country on its extremities, one reads "University of Thies". Apart from these details, nothing indicates to the foreigner who passes for the first time that he has in front of him a university. The streets are deserted. Dry sand. The temple of knowledge strangely empty. Dull in appearance, Ut is not an oasis. It seems rather to show a disused and worried mine. Far from the tension that prevails for a week, the atmosphere at the University of Thies is freezing, not a noise disturbs the silence. A cathedral silence enveloping the two pavilions that decorate the decor. "The atmosphere is like that because we are hungry. Students do not have enough to eat. It is really shameful in a country like Senegal, a country that aspires to emergence, "strangely strangles Sett Touré, member of the Conference of presidents of friendly students of Ut. A week after the restaurants of this institution of higher education closed, the 5,000 students of the 4 social campuses of the Ut, who can not anymore, ended up emptying the campuses. "We are driven out of hunger. For a week, we had been begging through the streets of the city of Thiès to buy some small pots of '' grounded '' (millet porridge) at night to feed, waiting for the reopening of closed university restaurants for a debt of more billion from the state to the buyers. But since then, there is no progress in the file. We are now exhausted to wait for the situation to settle down. That's why we decided to close the social and educational campuses so that all students could go home so they would not starve because there are some who live up to Tambacounda, Kidira, and even the ", say students who say they are helpless against the state of siege of the city of Thies since the beginning of their demonstration. Law enforcement is everywhere in the city. Everywhere, they take care of the grain, taking seriously the threats of students who could do nothing but bend. "We recall that Ucad and Ugb have suffered the same fate and they have been paid since May 14. And we are here to claim a right that is very basic: the restoration. We say that the responsibilities are shared between the state and the Crous-T which is very badly managed by a politician who only cares about his person and the ease of his courtiers, "he says.
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