Man wears burka to enter Kenyan female chess tournament
A man who disguised himself as a woman by wearing a burka made it past the fourth round of the Kenya Chess Championship in Nairobi before arousing suspicion.
The chess player, 25-year-old Stanley Omondi, who kept his identify a secret by not speaking to anyone at the tournament, registered under the alias Millicent Awuor.
But he was discovered after he won matches against former Kenyan national champion Gloria Jumba and top Ugandan player Ampaira Shakira.
At that point, players and the arbiters began to get suspicious. When Omondi made it past the fourth round, he was taken into a private room and staff demanded to see identification. It was then that he admitted he was a male university student desperate for money.
Once he was found out, Omondi was kicked out of the championship. His points were given to his female opponents.
The Kenya Open Chess Championship features 450 players from 22 chess federations. It has a top prize of $42,000.
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“Muslim women cannot report the assaults they face because they are told that they will betray the Muslim cause”: The French organisation Lallab is organising an action to fight intra-Muslim violence
During Ramadan, the feminist and anti-racist Muslim organisation Lallab launched a digital campaign on March 27 to combat violence within the community. A way to anonymously spread the messages of Muslim women who are addressing issues that are still taboo.
“It is often the law of silence. They can’t report the assaults they are subjected to because they are told that they would betray the cause and that you don’t wash your dirty linen in public.”
Lallab has collected around 50 testimonies that talk about incest, women wearing headscarves who feel stigmatised by their own families, or sexism experienced in the mosque. Some have already been published anonymously on their social networks and the violence of the reports shows that there is an urgent need for action. Above all, the organisation tries to create spaces for conversations, as the victims are not always being believed in their environment.
“What does it take for Muslim women to feel safe in mosques and in their families, to be invited to family dinners without fear of experiencing violence because they said something? “, Fatima Bent wonders.
These statements will be used to organise the counter-offensive, because Lallab, is also a place of mobilisation for Muslim women, available all year round. They organise self-defence courses as well as training. Le Mouv’
64% of French against non-European immigration, women more in favor of the idea
When asked “if we should stop non-European immigration to France,” more than six out of 10 French people (64%) answer “yes,” according to a poll for CNEWS by Consumer Science & Analytics (CSA) published on Wednesday, April 12.
According to the same survey, 36% of respondents answered “no,” thus opposing this idea.
The latest poll generally aligns with previous polls on the topic of immigration in France, which show the French are overwhelmingly opposed to mass immigration. However, this poll also shows that women are slightly more in favor of the idea of stopping non-European migration flows than men (61 percent), a finding that generally contrasts with polls from other countries like the United States, Germany, Sweden and Finland. In general, polling finds that women are generally more open to the idea of mass immigration in Western countries.
The poll also contains novel results regarding the age distribution of those rejecting mass immigration. The demographic answering “yes” at the highest rates is the 50-64 age group (68 percent), followed by the 25-34-year-olds (66 percent). Anti-immigration sentiment, therefore, is more evenly distributed among French society’s generations compared to Anglo countries like the U.S. and Britain, where the younger generation is far more accepting of open borders and lax immigration policy than the older generations.
Considering the sociological profile of the respondents, the least favored socio-professional categories are the most firm (71 percent) about stopping non-European immigration on French soil.
Then come the employed or those not working (62 percent) who answer “yes” to stopping this form of immigration, and finally, the upper socio-professional categories, with nearly six out of 10 French people (59 percent) here answering “yes.”
A very pronounced left-right divide
Unsurprisingly, the political divide on the issue is reflected in the results of this CSA poll for CNEWS.
In fact, 94 percent of those polled who said they were on the right were in favor of stopping non-European migration to France. As previous polls have shown in France, a majority of the left is also opposed, with 63 percent in the CSA poll saying “yes.”
However, a majority (70 percent) of the far-left France Insoumise party answered “no” to the question, signaling their support for non-European immigration. On the other hand, respondents close to the National Rally are almost unanimous, with 99 percent saying they would say “yes” to stopping such immigration.
Opinions are more balanced in the center. Those close to the Renaissance (56%), however, were more in favor of stopping it.