A STUDENT from the University of Asmara has died while in desert detention for defying government work orders, student sources claimed on Thursday. Yirga Yosef, a third-year university student, died of heat stroke on Tuesday following three days of detention in the desert, in a place called Wia, some 30 kilometers from the port city of Massawa, friends of Yirga said. Neither university officials nor the government would confirm the student’s death or the whereabouts of some 2 000 students who have been detained since last weekend for refusing to report to a government summer work program. – AFP