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Senegal jails teachers over baccalaureate exam fraud

Secondary school students shared exam question papers over social media

A teacher in Senegal has been given a five-year prison sentence and another has been fined $32,000 (£24,300) for selling exam papers.

French, English, history and geography baccalaureate tests had to be scrapped last year after the question sheets circulated on social media and WhatsApp.

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