Zenab Issa Oki Soumaïne

Zenab Issa Oki Soumaïne (born 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 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 1,500 hours of flight before graduation.

Oki worked for Air Burkina before joining the presidential air fleet in Chad. Her achievement is seen as a role model for other young women from Chad.