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Old 12-05-2015, 19:31   #1
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Feminist Make Equal Opportunity Gains

One field has long been an equal playing field where women have many of the same opportunities as men.

From the 1991 assassination of Rajiv Ghandi, to San Bernardino, to Chad, women have consistently shown they will not sit idly by as men climb the corporate ladder of terrorist atrocities.


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-35015556

Three suicide attacks have hit an island on Lake Chad, killing at least 27 people, security sources have said.

The blasts, on the island of Koulfoua on the Chadian side of the lake, struck a weekly market, the sources said.

No group has said it was behind the attacks, but the region is under a state of emergency after attacks by the Boko Haram militant group.

This year thousands of people fleeing the Islamist fighters sought safety on the island.

A police spokesman told Associated Press news agency that three women had carried out the attack on Koulfoua. At least 80 others were injured in the blasts.
Chad has played a key role helping Nigeria recapture areas seized by the group in northern Nigeria.

But as Boko Haram lost territory it stepped up attacks away from its Nigerian strongholds and into remote areas of Chad, as well as neighbouring Niger and Cameroon.

At least 17,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed since 2009, when the group launched its violent uprising to try to impose Islamist rule in northern Nigeria, according to Amnesty International.
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Old 12-05-2015, 19:48   #2
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I'm very glad that the glass (no pun intended) ceiling has finally been broken. Now if we can only advance the cause of trans and cis-genders in this field...
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Old 12-05-2015, 21:29   #3
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Chad has a great deal of workplace violence.
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