{"id":16931,"date":"2025-06-14T07:59:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T07:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=16931"},"modified":"2025-06-22T08:12:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T08:12:54","slug":"somalia-kicks-off-national-exams-for-final-year-high-school-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2025\/06\/14\/somalia-kicks-off-national-exams-for-final-year-high-school-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia kicks off national exams for final-year high school students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;<\/strong> Nearly 40,000 students across Somalia began sitting for the 12th Grade Certificate Examination for the 2024\u20132025 academic year on Saturday, marking a major milestone in the country\u2019s education calendar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">According to the Ministry of Education, a total of 39,397 students are participating in the national exams across all regions and districts of the country. State Minister of Education and other senior officials officially launched the examinations in a nationwide effort involving thousands of exam centers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prime Minister Hamsa Abdi Barre extended special congratulations to the Somali Police Force for securing the examination sites and ensuring a smooth and peaceful testing process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\u201cI commend the forces that are safeguarding the security of the national examination sites,\u201d the Prime Minister said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Speaking at the official opening ceremony, Barre reaffirmed his government\u2019s commitment to improving the quality and accessibility of education nationwide. He emphasized that his administration will invest more in the education sector and work to expand learning opportunities for all students, regardless of background or region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">The national exam period is seen as a critical step in Somalia\u2019s ongoing education reform and is a major event in the academic year, overseen by the federal government in coordination with regional authorities.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: HOL\u00a0 \u00a0Origin: <a href=\"Nearly 40,000 students sit for National 12th Grade exams across Somalia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">view original<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212; Nearly 40,000 students across Somalia began sitting for the 12th Grade Certificate Examination for the 2024\u20132025 academic year on Saturday, marking a major milestone in the country\u2019s education calendar. According to the Ministry of Education, a total of 39,397 students are participating in the national exams across all regions and districts of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16931"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16995,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16931\/revisions\/16995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}