In Rabat, Morocco, contract teachers continue to mount pressure on authorities to give them permanent employment status.
In addition to this, the teachers have for weeks been campaigning for integration with the national civil service.
They have embarked on strikes and protests, and the silence of authorities is infuriating them.
On Wednesday, one of such protests led to a clash between the teachers, their supporters and the Moroccan police.
Despite a ban on gatherings over the coronavirus, the teachers would have none of it. Unfortunately, you can see the repression that we are suffering today in the face of the silence of from Ministry which refuses to dialogue with us. They have recently brought in the program for professional qualification which we completely reject because we want to be under the supervision of the Ministry of Education and not of the academies , said Taha Wadani, a teacher from Salé.