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Zenab Issa Oki Soumaïne
Zenab Issa Oki Soumaïne (born 30 August 1986) is an aviator and the first woman from Chad to become an aircraft captain. Biography Oki graduated with a baccalaureate in 2003, and in 2005 began to study in Sabangali for a degree in finance. She later decided to move to a career in aviation and her first pilot's licence was awarded in Miami for a Hawker 900XP, Hawker 900XPI.On 3 May 2017 Oki was promoted to captain, becoming the first woman from Chad to captain an aircraft. She studied at Ethiopian Airlines' Pilot Academy and completed 1500 hours of flight before graduation. At her graduation ceremony, the First Lady of Chad, Hinda Deby Itno, encouraged the audience to give Oki a standing ovation. The ceremony was held at the Hilton Hotel in N’Djamena. Oki worked for Air Burkina before joining the presidential air fleet in Chad. In 2019 she was employed by the president of Chad as a pilot. Her achievement is seen as a role model for other young women from Chad. Reference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chad
Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon to the southwest, Nigeria to the southwest (at Lake Chad), and Niger to the west. Chad has a population of 16 million, of which 1.6 million live in the capital and largest city of N'Djamena. Chad has several regions: a desert zone in the north, an arid Sahelian belt in the centre and a more fertile Sudanian Savanna zone in the south. Lake Chad, after which the country is named, is the second-largest wetland in Africa. Chad's official languages are Arabic and French. It is home to over 200 different ethnic and linguistic groups. Islam (55.1%) and Christianity (41.1%) are the main religions practiced in Chad. Beginning in the 7th millennium BC, human populations moved into the Chadian basin in great number ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |