- Mar 11, 2024
- 1 minute
Morocco plans to send “substantial humanitarian aid” to help Jordan handle the influx of Syrian refugees fleeing the deadly unrest in their country, official sources in Rabat said on Friday.
King Mohammad VI has decided to dispatch an “expert Moroccan mission equipped with substantial logistical and humanitarian aid,” notably food, tents and medical supplies, the palace said in a statement.
Specialist doctors will accompany the relief mission, which the kingdom will provide with its own airplanes, according to a government source.
Jordan is currently hosting more than 145,000 people who have fled the 16-month conflict in neighboring Syria, which activists say has claimed more than 20,000 lives.
The Moroccan monarch and his Jordanian counterpart, King Abdullah II, spoke by phone on Friday, with Mohammad VI expressing his country’s “full solidarity” with Jordan in dealing with the refugee crisis, the palace said.
-AFP
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Learning was paralysed in most of public schools yesterday as about 90 percent of teachers staged a countrywide strike to demand a pay rise. Not even processions by their students would soften the hearts of the angry teachers.
But the government was just as steadfast in its resolve, warning the teachers that action would be taken against those who took part in the outlawed strike. The Minister for Education and Vocational Training, Dr Shukuru Kawambwa, told a hastily convened press conference in his Dar es Salaam office that the government will withhold the salaries of all teachers who take part in the boycott.
Leaders of the Tanzania Teachers Union (TTU) moved fast to calm their members, advising them that no one will be penalised for not going to work because their strike met all the legal requirements.
viaSchools paralysed.