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For Mariama Faal, motherhood was meant to be a joyful journey. Instead, each pregnancy brought back painful memories that began in her childhood. A teacher and mother of three, Faal has lived for years with the consequen...
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The sight of two severely bleeding girls arriving at the hospital was not new to Dr. Njie. As a medical doctor working in public and private hospitals in The Gambia, he had treated many patients suffering from complicati...
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For many women, childbirth is anticipated as a challenging yet ultimately joyful experience—the moment when the pain of labour gives way to the cry of a newborn. However, for some women who have undergone female genital ...
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The child was bleeding when her mother carried her into the hospital. She was very young—perhaps too young to understand what had happened to her. Her mother was frightened and desperate, searching for someone who could ...
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For Musa Bayo, female genital mutilation (FGM) is not seen as harmful but rather as a cultural obligation that has been passed down through generations. As a father of three daughters from Jarra in the Central River Regi...
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