Kadra Mahamoud Haid - First Woman of Djibouti and feminine activist
Written byTimes Magazine
Kadra Mahamoud Haid is a Djiboutian political consultant, politician and First Woman of Djibouti since 1999. She is the spouse of President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh.
In 2003, Haid criticized female genital mutilation (FGM), "These practices are not gone, an estimated two million young girls a year, 6,000 per day, still undergo these mutilations in all their forms. The consequences are dramatic; it can cause death by haemorrhage, urinary infections, cysts and childbirth difficulties, not to mention psychological damage." Albeit a 1995 law prohibited FGM, it has been assessed that 98% of ladies in Djibouti are casualties of it.
Somali businessman Abdourahman Boreh, perhaps the most extravagant individual in Djibouti, was ousted due to a speculation question with Haid.
In 2014, it was accounted for that Guelleh "holds on to that power jealously, sharing it only with his influential wife". Africa Insight has expressed that she "goes about as such a Vice President".
With her better half, Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, she has two little girls, official consultant Haibado and money manager Fatouma-Awo. She has a child from her first husband, Naguib Abdallah Kamil, what her identity is apparently prepping for "high political obligations", and a little girl, Nazli, who is a money manager.