Meet Selina Nkatha, a 23-year-old woman from Meru. Behind the smile she wears on her face is the story of a brutal act that caused her a lot of pain and trauma. "It was an ordinary day just after I ...

Adele Koue Sungbeu underwent female genital mutilation as a teenager but now holds her head up high and smiles broadly as she walks to work in Abidjan after reconstructive surgery. The 45-year-old ...

Dr Marci Bowers during an interview with the Standard at the Platinum Surgery Centre, Hurlingham, Nairobi [Elvis Ogina/Standard] It is late on a Tuesday afternoon, and Dr Marci Bowers, Clitoraid's ...

In 2020, surgeons Reham Awwad and Amr Seifeldin became the first to offer the procedure in Egypt through their clinic, Restore FGM – Copyright AFP Khaled DESOUKI ...

An estimated 230 million women worldwide have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM), which involves injury to the external genital organs for nonmedical reasons. According to the World Health ...

In 2020, surgeons Reham Awwad and Amr Seifeldin became the first to offer the procedure in Egypt through their clinic, Restore FGM — Khaled DESOUKI Intissar was only 10 years old when she was forced ...

Intissar was only 10 years old when she was forced to undergo genital mutilation, but 30 years later, one clinic is offering help for some of the millions of Egyptian women affected by the ...