Day: July 1, 2022

Relatively hot weather is expected to prevail in the highlands and the plains, while it will be hot in the Jordan Valley, the Dead Sea, Aqaba and the Badia areas, the Jordan Meteorological Department (JMD) said in its forecast for Monday.

Mercury levels will rise few degrees on Tuesday, bringing hot weather in most parts of the Kingdom, except in the heights where it will be relatively hot, with northwesterly moderate to brisk winds, the forecasters added.

As we head into Wednesday, temperatures will continue to soar as the country will be gripped by a brutal heat wave that will trigger scorching conditions in most regions, the JMD predicted, noting that the Jordan Valley, the Dead Sea and Aqaba are set to swelter in blistering weather.

The highs in Amman and other highlands across the Kingdom today will range between 34 and 30 degrees Celsius. In the late afternoon and evening hours, cooler weather is forecast as mercury levels slide to around 20C.

In the port city of Aqaba, daytime temperatures will stand at 41C, while lows will drop to 28C at night.

Source: Jordan News Agency

The Jordan Payments and Clearing Systems Company (JoPACC) has named non-profit organization INJAZ as the 2022 Digital Financial Services (DFS) Champion in the second annual cycle of the Digital Champions Program.

The Digital Champions Program aims to recognize and honor the individuals and institutions pioneering change across the financial sector who contribute to expanding the acceptance and use of digital financial services.

The champions are nominated by financial sector stakeholders, after which JoPACC’s team evaluates the candidates and selects the winner(s) for that year.

INJAZ is a pioneer in promoting financial literacy, particularly in the realm of digital financial services, among school students, university students, community college students, and youth centers through educational programs and courses.

INJAZ is also credited with developing the national financial literacy curriculum (Financial Education Program) in collaboration with the Central Bank of Jordan and the Ministry of Education, which was mainstreamed in schools as a subject taught to students from the seventh to the twelfth grades.

The CEO of JoPACC, Maha Al-Baho, lauded INJAZ’s entrepreneurial role in promoting the early teaching of life skills and broadening the educational process to include practical elements, which will empower youth to lead their lives and make responsible, well-informed decisions.

Deema Bibi, CEO of INJAZ, praised JoPACC for its efforts to raise financial literacy in Jordan and reaffirmed INJAZ’s belief in the value of early financial education and awareness.

JoPACC and INJAZ have also agreed to step up their efforts to raise awareness of core financial concepts through joint training sessions and the development of financial awareness programs, with the goal of increasing financial inclusion across the Kingdom.

INJAZ has established itself as a leading solution provider linking the public, private, and civil society sectors to bridge the skills gap between the educational system and the changing needs of the labor market over the past 22 years, building on its mission to inspire and prepare youth to become productive members of their society and accelerate the development of the national economy.

INJAZ established the mySTARTUP incubator in 2018, which leverages INJAZ’s resources, expertise, and network in order to promote entrepreneurship and enable startups to become a driving force for the increased and equal participation and economic development of youth and women.

On the other hand, JoPACC oversees a number of payment systems in Jordan, launches cutting-edge digital solutions, and carries out research and analysis in the area of financial technology and inclusion.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Sudan’s Health Ministry, Sunday evening, reported its first confirmed case of the monkeypox virus, which has recently been designated as a global emergency.

The Ministry said in a statement that the infection was detected in a 16-year-old student, according to the Sudan News Agency (SUNA).

The global monkeypox outbreak has been declared a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Source: Jordan News Agency

The Thoughtful Archeology in the Ecosphere and Sociosphere, the 15th International Conference on the History and Archeology of Jordan, will kick off tomorrow at the Yarmouk University (YU) campus and continue until August 5th, with participants from across the world.

The conference, organized by the YU and the Department of Antiquities, will tackle 13 scientific topics that cover aspects related to archeological research, applied sciences, reports of excavations and archeological surveys, and prehistoric and antiquity periods from Alexander the Great until the Islamic conquest, said a joint statement issued Monday by YU and the department.

A total of 294 people will take part in the conference; 120 of whom are from Jordan, 8 from Arab countries (Egypt, Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and the UAE), and 166 people are from other countries, including Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Japan, Holland, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

This global gathering, first held in the 1980s in Oxford in the United Kingdom, as a HRH Prince Al Hassan bin Talal initiative, is regarded as a major international event that allows researchers to present a summary of their scientific output on Jordan and the Levant’s history and archeology.

For more information, visit the conference’s new website: http://ichaj.org.

Source: Jordan News Agency

The Public Security Department’s (PSD) Criminal Investigation Unit revealed Monday the circumstances of a 2009 murder, in which a group of brothers allegedly plotted and murdered their sister.

After receiving new information, officers of the cold cases team conducted an investigation and found that the brothers had not reported their sister missing and had led acquaintances to believe that the victim was out of the country, raising officers’ suspicions. However, the team confirmed that the sister did not, in fact, leave the Kingdom and that there were no traces of her inside the country, according to the PSD’s spokesperson.

Officers questioned the suspects who then confessed to strangling their sister and loading the body into a vehicle and dumping it in the Kasarat area in the Madaba governorate.

Search teams are looking for the remains of the body in the area, the spokesperson added, stating that the suspects will be referred to the Grand Criminal Court.

Source: Jordan News Agency

The Jordan Football Association (JFA) submitted an Expression of Interest to the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to host the 2026 Women’s Asian Cup.

In a statement on Monday, the AFC said that the Kingdom was among four countries (Saudi Arabia, Australia and Uzbekistan) that submitted an Expression of Interest.

The AFC is working with all bidding member associations on the delivery of the necessary documentation in accordance with the bidding process with a decision to be finalized and communicated in 2023, it added.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Israeli police on Monday arrested Adnan Ghaith, the Palestinian mayor of Jerusalem and a member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council.

The Palestinian Prisoners Club said in a statement that a police force raided the mayor’s house in the Arab neighborhood of Silwan, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, searched and ransacked the house and detained him.

Ghaith has been arrested by Israeli occupation authorities more than 17 times since he was named as Palestinian mayor in 2019, and he is banned from traveling to the West Bank.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Israeli occupation forces on Monday arrested 42 Palestinians in various areas in the West Bank following widespread raids.

In a statement, the Palestinian Prisoners Society said that Israeli occupation forces stormed the cities of Hebron, Ramallah, Bireh, Nablus, Bethlehem, Qalqilya and Jenin, and rounded up the Palestinians under the pretext they were “wanted.”

Source: Jordan News Agency

The Qatari Ministry of Health on Monday announced that 762 new cases infected with COVID-19 were recorded during the last 24 hours.

In a statement, the ministry said that the death toll in the country stood at 681, while the number of active cases in the country is now at 7,246 infections.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Prime Minister Bisher Khasawneh said Monday that the philosophy behind the draft amending the National Center for Human Rights law, which the government passed to Parliament, is fully consistent with the empowerment of political parties, but stressed that supervisory bodies must remain non-partisan.

“This philosophy stipulates that supervision bodies be neutral, similar to security services and the armed forces, the judiciary, administrative governors, members of the diplomatic corps, the Central Bank Governor and other entities specified under the parties law now in force, since they represent the entire country, and not based on affiliation to a certain party,” he told lawmakers during a Lower House session.

The proposed amendment, which requires that anyone appointed as chairman of the board of trustees or commissioner general of the center not be affiliated with any political party, is in line with Article (6) of the Political Parties Law now in force, he said.

The Prime Minister stressed that the proposed amendment is not in conflict with the promotion of partisan work, noting that many administrative procedures and regulations concerning political and partisan work in universities are undergoing change to encourage young people to engage in it.

Regulatory bodies that oversee and issue reports related to the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms must be neutral, and thus those responsible for them must not be affiliated with parties, he concluded.

Source: Jordan News Agency