The debate about female genital cutting has led to an open discussion about sexual pleasure in Gambia, with women buying sex ...

Carolyn Van Houten, Lorenzo Tugnoli, Salwan Georges and Carmen Abd Ali — look back at the stories they covered.

A bill aimed at lifting the ban on female genital mutilation (FGM) has been tabled in The Gambia's parliament by an independent lawmaker. It was outlawed in the mainly Muslim nation in 2015 when ...

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), [1] female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) includes all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia ...

Six years ago, her father demanded she return to Gambia and marry a man much older than herself. Before the marriage took place, she would have to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM). "I grew up ...

The campaign is inspired by the "pink bus" anti-FGM movements that began in the Gambia a decade ago, said Caroline Kimeu, The Guardian's East Africa global development correspondent. In each ...

Ironically, proponents of FGM helped open the discourse, he said, by saying clearly what activists had long known: Cutting was about controlling women’s desire. Abdoulie Fatty, one of Gambia’s ...

Some of the risks of FGM include severe pain, infections, excessive bleeding and urine retention A bill aimed at lifting the ban on female genital mutilation (FGM) has been tabled in The Gambia's ...