{"id":379415,"date":"2026-08-15T13:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T13:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/379415\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T13:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T13:55:11","slug":"somalia-announces-grade-12-exam-results-with-93-of-students-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/379415\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia announces grade 12 exam results, with 93% of students passing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HOL
Saturday August 15, 2026<\/p>\n

\"Somalia<\/p>\n

Mogadishu (HOL) \u2014 Somali Ministry of Education on Saturday announced the results of the 2025-2026 national Grade 12 examination, with 40,037 of the 42,916 students who sat for the exam passing, a 93% pass rate.<\/p>\n

The ministry said 2,809 students failed the examination. <\/p>\n

Education Minister Farah Sheikh Abdulqadir said students who missed the exam for documented reasons will be given an opportunity to take it at a later date.<\/p>\n

The minister also praised students, parents, teachers and the wider public for supporting the national examination process and reventing
\nthe leakage of exam papers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe exam papers, which consisted of several million, were not stolen and spread on social media, and this was due to the efforts ade,\u201d
\nFarah said.<\/p>\n

He said the government spent $1,268,619 to administer the examination, describing the expenditure as an investment funded by Somali
\ntaxpayers.<\/p>\n

Students registered with the National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) can now obtain their examination certificates online without traveling to the Education Ministry, Farah said.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre congratulated students who passed the examination and spoke by telephone with the three highest-scoring students and their parents.<\/p>\n

\u201cI congratulate the teachers, parents and the Somali people as a whole, particularly the country\u2019s education community. Congratulations. A nation is built and transformed through its educated generation. Whenever our people become educated, we move closer to positive change,\u201d Hamza said.<\/p>\n

The prime minister also pledged that the federal government would cover the full cost of education for the three top-performing students.<\/p>\n

The students are: Mohamed Isse Daahir Yuusuf of Hawl-Wadaag School in Mogadishu, Banadir, Farhia Farah Egal of Ahmed Binu Hambal School in Kismayo, Jubaland, and Amina Khalid Adalla Ahmed of Imaamu Shaafici (Sh. Madar) School in Mogadishu, Banadir.<\/p>\n

Hamza praised the students for their achievement and credited their success to their hard work, as well as the support of their parents, teachers and the wider education community.<\/p>\n

The release of the results marks a major milestone for thousands of Somali students completing secondary education and preparing to
\npursue higher education, vocational training or employment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday August 15, 2026 Mogadishu (HOL) \u2014 Somali Ministry of Education on Saturday announced the results of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[51],"tags":[42638,181516,26988,181515,43236,6033,181517,1451,1984,9094,19020],"class_list":["post-379415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-somalia","tag-42638","tag-181516","tag-announces","tag-exam","tag-grade","tag-of","tag-passing","tag-results","tag-somalia","tag-students","tag-with"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@africa\/117099870907215926","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}