Internet and mobile services were cut off after days of deadly clashes over the allocation of government jobs.
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00:00Officers and businesses in Dakar have been closed as student protests against how government
00:07jobs are allocated continue.
00:11Students have been demonstrating for weeks against the quota system which sees a third
00:15of civil service jobs earmarked for the descendants of veterans of the war for independence.
00:22Students say it's unfair and want it replaced with a merit-based system.
00:28Protests have often been violent with six people killed on Tuesday.