"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 ...

Zeinaba Mahr Aouad, a 24-year-old woman from Djibouti, remembers the day when, as a ten-year-old, an unexpected visitor came to her house: "She had a syringe, a razor blade and bandages." ...

"I still see the knife, and the lady who held me down," said Hawa'a Mohamed Kamil. Now 30, she was subjected to female genital mutilation at just six years old - an experience that left not only ...