Mozambique: Government promises all pupils will take final exams

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Mozambique: Government promises all pupils will take final exams

3:12 CAT | 06 Nov 2019

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Mozambique’s government has said that all pupils from areas affected by armed violence in Cabo Delgado province, in the north of the country, will take the final exams that began on Monday.

“No child will be affected by being in the areas where attacks have occurred or are occurring,” the education and human development minister, Conceita Sortane, said.

The governor was speaking on the sidelines of the start of the final exams of primary, secondary and technical-professional education.

To prevent pupils from missing the final exams, the education ministry instructed the schools in the districts that received displaced families due to violence to receive pupils from these areas, she added.

“We even have some schools that were temporarily closed, and the pupils were accommodated in the surrounding schools,” Sortane said.

More than 1.7 million pupils are taking final exams, which began on Monday throughout the country.

Districts in the north of Cabo Delgado have been the scene of armed violence moved by unknown groups since October 2017, which have already killed dozens of people and destruction of properties.

The violence began with the attempt by some Muslim believers to impose a more radical version of Islam on mosques in the northern districts of Cabo Delgado.

The United Nations estimates that 60,000 people have already been forced to abandon their lands and places of residence, according to the latest revision of the global humanitarian aid plan for the country.

Source: Lusa