Guinea Bissau/ Global: How African students suffer and die

The desperate act by Guinea Bissau students holding their country’s ambassador hostage in Moscow speaks volume about the terrible conditions of African students studying abroad. The Bissau students had become so impoverished due to allowance arrears, that some of them have resorted to eating from waste bins and stealing to survive. Worse, those of them lucky enough to finish their studies under such terrible conditions are stranded and cannot go home. In Cuba, Bissau students who finished their studies five years ago, were still waiting for their return tickets back home last November.