Somalia postpones exams after leaks

Somalia has cancelled national secondary school examinations after papers were leaked via social media and sold.

Students have been sitting their final year of school exams since Saturday.

However the leakage of papers at one examination centre forced education minister Abdullahi Godah Barre to go on national television on Monday night to announce the cancellation of the exams.

The minister added that the exams would now be retaken from 27 to 31 May, and social media would be shut during the five days to curb the illegal circulation of papers.