Jordanian students ‘used complicated cheating techniques’ — Sudan

AMMAN – The government is still following up on the issue of Jordanian students in Sudan allegedly involved in the leak of the Sudanese secondary exam papers last month.

A total of 21 Jordanians are currently behind bars, while the government is "exerting all efforts to release them", according to an informed source who preferred anonymity.

"All the detained are doing well and we are in close contact with their families," he said.

The Sudanese news agency said on Sunday that the foreign ministry summoned Jordanian Ambassador in Khartoum Mohammad Al Fayez on Saturday and presented him with a memo expressing authorities' "frustration" over the way the Jordanian media handled the issue in question. 

According to the agency, the ministry noted that a "group of Jordanian students have used advanced and complicated cheating tools, making it one of the most dangerous information crimes that affected the social and official circles in Sudan".

The ministry also voiced its frustration over the Education Ministry's decision not to accredit secondary school certificates issued in Sudan, the agency reported.

Mid last month, Sudanese authorities detained a number of Jordanian students over claims that the secondary school national exam test papers were leaked and obtained by some Jordanian students.

The incident prompted the Education Ministry to announce that secondary school certificates from Sudan will not be officially accredited in Jordan.

More than 700 Jordanians have flown to Sudan to obtain what they believe an “easier” general secondary education certificate.