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Moroccan Students to Return to School in September

Moroccan Students to Return to School in September
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Moroccan Students to Return to School in September

Moroccan Students to Return to School in September

Morocco’s Minister of Education Said Amzazi announced Tuesday that schools will remain closed until September.

All final exams of the 2019-2020 academic year will be cancelled, except for the first and second years of the baccalaureate levels, he said.

The national exam for the second year of the baccalaureate will be held in July, while the regional exam for the first year of the baccalaureate will be held in September, he explained.

Speaking at the House of Councillors in Rabat, Amzazi said that in order to ensure the principle of equal opportunities for all students, exam subjects will only include lessons that were completed by March 14, before schools shifted to e-learning.

“Intensive courses will be programmed” to prepare for the final baccalaureate exams, Amzazi noted, affirming that the ministry will take all preventive measures to ensure the safety of students and teachers during exam periods.

The measures include the sterilization of educational facilities and materials several times a day, the distribution of protective masks, measuring temperatures, and physical distancing.

Regarding the rest of students, he said only the grades obtained during the first semester of the academic year will be taken into consideration.

Online courses will continue through various digital platforms, TV channels and pamphlets that will be distributed to elementary school students in remote rural areas.

In this context, the Minister stressed that the current school year is not yet over, adding that the remaining period is of great importance for students.

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Hezbollah Chief Pledges to Coordinate with Lebanese Army to Implement Truce

A view of the destruction in the southern Lebanese village of Mais al-Jabal, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, northern Israel, 29 November 2024. (EPA)
A view of the destruction in the southern Lebanese village of Mais al-Jabal, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, northern Israel, 29 November 2024. (EPA)
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Hezbollah Chief Pledges to Coordinate with Lebanese Army to Implement Truce

A view of the destruction in the southern Lebanese village of Mais al-Jabal, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, northern Israel, 29 November 2024. (EPA)
A view of the destruction in the southern Lebanese village of Mais al-Jabal, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, northern Israel, 29 November 2024. (EPA)

The head of Hezbollah, Sheikh Naim Qassem, pledged on Friday to coordinate closely with the Lebanese army to implement a ceasefire deal with Israel, which he said his group had agreed to "with heads held high".

It was his first address since a ceasefire came into effect on Wednesday after more than a year of hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel that decimated swathes of Lebanon and killed 4,000 people including hundreds of women and children.

Qassem said Hezbollah had "approved the deal, with the resistance strong in the battlefield, and our heads held high with our right to defend (ourselves)."

The ceasefire stipulates that Hezbollah will withdraw from areas south of the Litani river, which runs some 30 km (20 miles) north of the border with Israel, and that the Lebanese army will deploy troops there as Israeli ground troops withdraw.

"There will be high-level coordination between the Resistance (Hezbollah) and the Lebanese army to implement the commitments of the deal," Qassem said.

The Lebanese army has already sent additional troops to the south but is preparing a detailed deployment plan to share with Lebanon's cabinet, security sources and officials have said.

That effort has been complicated by the continuing presence of Israeli troops on Lebanese territory. The deal grants them a full 60 days to complete their withdrawal.

The Israeli military has issued restrictions on people returning to villages along Lebanon's border with Israel and has fired at people in those villages in recent days, calling those movements a violation of the truce.

Both the Lebanese army and Hezbollah have accused Israel of breaching the ceasefire in those instances, and by launching an airstrike above the Litani River on Thursday.

Qassem said the group had scored a "divine victory" against Israel even greater than that declared after the two foes last fought in 2006.

"To those that were betting that Hezbollah would be weakened, we are sorry, their bets have failed," he said.