CHAPTER 10Ousmar had just opened a small health post at the southern end of the village. It would be attended by a Nigerian doctor who would come twice a week to the village, a standing Chadian paramedic and two Cameroonian nuns. The French had brought some medical equipment and drugs along with weapons, and promised to add more instruments in the future.
“My father has a modernizing mentality.” Khaliyha told her husband. “And he listens to my advice on social matters. His current priorities, along with defense of course, are health and education. If there is more stability in the area we could be of interest to Medicins sans Frontiers. In fact our ethnic group was the first of Chad prohibiting genital mutilation of girls.”
“You must change the agenda and incorporate issues that are con
