A group of young Afghan women in the deeply conservative western Herat province is breaking traditional barriers as their war-torn country’s first female coders in an overwhelmingly male-dominated tech field. “Each time he came back home, he would tell us about the poppy fields, the terrible mine blasts, battling opium traffickers and drugs,” Mohammadi recounted to The Associated Press. In the game, with five supporting lives, an Afghan soldier mimics a real-life mission in Helmand to clear out drugs. Afghanistan is the world’s top cultivator of the poppy, from which opium and heroin are produced. As young Afghans increasingly use social media, 20-year-old Frahnaz Osmani, a student of graphic designer at the CTI, decided to develop Afghan female character stickers.

Source: Egypt Independent February 06, 2018 06:22 UTC