Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Banjul, The Gambia – On a rainy morning in early August, a newborn girl suffering severe vaginal wounds was rushed to Banjul's ...

Naomi Kolian recounts the ordeal at her parents' house at the age of 13. Kolian, now a mother of five, said her parents arranged for her genital mutilation during a school break. She had just taken ...

Taking more than six years to complete, The Cut is a feature-length documentary that conclusively proves that female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM) can be found as a native practice on all ...

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For decades, Kenya has been at the forefront of the global fight against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), making commendable progress in reducing prevalence rates. However, a new challenge is emerging ...

While female genital mutilation, or FGM, is illegal in Kenya, it’s so ingrained in culture in some areas of the country that many families go to great lengths to circumvent the law and secretly cut ...

Let us not kid ourselves into thinking of FGM as a neutral or positive cultural practice: girls hemorrhage to death, and endure crippling infections for months or years after the cut. Even when the ...

If knives are to be held to a child’s genitals, a thorough discussion better take place first. The dialogue about female “circumcision” — or genital mutilation — has amplified over the past few years.

A female genital mutilation (FGM) survivor who nearly died after she was cut with a dirty razor says she has taken her "power back" after life-changing surgery. Amani Abdallah, aged 24, was left in ...