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Despite being in her seventies, a Chadian woman is still fighting to claim her title of Miss Fort Lamy 1966.
Fatime Boumie took the organisers of the Miss Chad 2007 competition to court when they said that another woman, Helene Adda had won the beauty queen title 43 years ago.
Although the judge found in the favour of Madame Boumie, she has still not received the $5000 compensation she was awarded in 2008, and she will not let it rest, as our reporter Celeste Hicks found out.
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