Ivory Coast dissolves powerful student unions after deaths and a police raid

Ivory Coast’s government has announced a ban on all student unions following the deaths of two students and the arrest of 17 suspects in a confrontation between police and a student association with connections to some of the most powerful people in the country.

The ban on Thursday (Oct. 17) came after a government raid on student housing controlled by a student union, known by its French acronym FESCI, that the government says was…