Chad pastoralist made to sit on floor now stands for her community

By Fabiola Ortiz MARRAKESH, Morocco (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, a member of Chad’s Mbororo pastoralists, first went to talk to the men of her community about climate change, she found herself sitting on the floor. “Being an indigenous woman in Africa is a double marginalisation,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation on the sidelines of the U.N. climate talks in Morocco, which finished last weekend. Such opportunities are rare for girls in the culture of the Mbororo, a group of pastoralists living in the Sahel across Chad, Cameroon, Niger, Nigeria and the Central African Republic, she said.
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