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Minister of Education Conceita Sortane. File photo: MINEDH
The Mozambican Minister of Education and Human Development said today that armed violence in the north of the country has prevented many students from sitting school exams, and promised that those affected would not suffer as a result.
Minister Conceita Sortane told reporters at Radio Mozambique that fifth-graders from a primary school in one of the northern districts of Mozambique had missed final exams last week because they had fled their homes with their families and gone into hiding in response to attacks by unidentified men in the region.
“We will create special conditions so that students affected by the situation can take the exams, and as more students appear, we will do the same,” Sortane said.
The attacks in northern Mozambique were triggered a year ago by groups recruited in mosques and backing the imposition of Islamic law. Analysts invited by Lusa have been divided among those who say there are links to organised crime and terrorism and those proposing other root causes.
Among suggested causes are a popular revulsion at extreme poverty, old territorial disputes between ethnic groups or even political manipulation aimed at destabilizing Mozambique at a time when hydrocarbon companies are investing in the extraction of natural gas in Cabo Delgado.
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