This happened during renewed clashes between police and protesters from the Hausa tribe in Kassala.

The protest was to express anger to a statement in a newspaper, attributed to the President of the republic, on which the tribe members said it doubted their identity.

The Minister of Culture and information  in Kassala state, Mustafa Hassan, told Miraya FM, that the demonstrators burned a police station and caused losses to property, adding that currently the situation is calm in the state.