Word: chadli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Women, 6 December, 1979 in Lusaka, by the delegate from Somalia, Mrs. Edan Adan Ismael, "Female circumcision ranks high in the list of preventable health hazards and affects almost 100% of the female population of Somalia, Sudan and Djibouti, and to a lesser extent the females of Southern Egypt, Chad, Nigeria, Senegal, Kenya, Ethiopia and Mali just to name a few." Islam is the religion of Somalia and most of the other countries concerned...
...lecture on female genital and sexual mutilations, on International Women's Day (sponsored by the Radcliffe Forum), an article and letter published recently in The Crimson was brought up. In this article/letter, the showing of an anthropological film on genital/sexual mutilation in Chad, Africa, was protested...
Armed largely by Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the northern-based Muslim guerrillas had succeeded last March in ousting President Félix Malloum, one of the southern Christians who have monopolized the government since Chad received its independence from France in 1960. Muslim Leaders Oueddei and Habré have since shared power in an eleven-faction alliance marked by mutual suspicion and hostility...
...Chad's warring leaders not only are locked in a power struggle, but also are seen as proxies of two foreign nations with rival interests throughout Africa: the sophisticated, Paris-educated Habré is associated with the French, while the ascetic revolutionary Oueddei is presumed to be close to the Libyans...
Amid the turmoil, there was more than one cause for Western concern. Not only is Chad a mineral-rich source of potential instability in the very heart of Africa, but the backer of one key rebel faction, Libya's Gaddafi, is a onetime protégé of the Soviet Union and a troublemaking champion of Islamic radicalism throughout the region...