Zeinaba Mahr Aouad, 24, a resident of Djibouti, survied female genital mutilation when she was 10. Now a volunteer for the “Elle & Elles” network, with the support of UNFPA, she canvasses her ...

"I still see the knife, and the lady who held me down," said Hawa'a Mohamed Kamil, a peer educator in Djibouti, who was subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) at just six years old, an ...

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President of Djibouti Ismail Omar Guelleh in Nairobi, Kenya, 13 September 2022. © Billy Mutai/Anadolu Agency/Anadolu Agency via AFP ...