FGM Is A Crime; Stop It
The Minister for Gender, Children & Social Protection, Otiko Afisah Djaba, has served notice to proponents of Female Genital Mutilation ...
Tag: Female genital mutilation
Ghanaian-Led Team Wins UN Award To Fight FGM
A 30-year-old Ghanaian social advocate has received a UN award on steps to fight Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the ...
Efua Dorkenoo’s Campaign Against Female Genital Mutilation, An Unfinished Business
Efua Dorkenoo’s campaign against female genital mutilation, an unfinished business A SPECIAL NOTE: In New York, this author sat in ...
Female Genital Circumcision In Ghana
Female genital mutilation is truly a controversial subject and an abhorrent practice We continue from Part 1 (Note: In New ...
Female Genital Circumcision In Ghana? 1
WHO should monitor countries identified with the practice of female genital mutilation “Clitoridectomy and female circumcision, practices often labeled as ...
Female Genital Circumcision In Ghana?
WHO should monitor countries identified with the practice of female genital mutilation “Clitoridectomy and female circumcision, practices often labeled as ...
Invest In Your Kids’ Education
The Minister for Gender, Children and Social protection, Otiko Afisah Djaba, has charged parents in the three regions of the ...
Indonesian Girl Howls Through Circumcision As Debate Heats Up
Indonesian toddler Salsa Djafar was wearing a glittering golden crown decorated with ribbons and a shiny purple dress to mark ...
NGO Fights Maternal and Infant Mortality In Northern and Volta Regions
A Non Governmental Organization, Savana Signatures (Save Sign) has widened its scope to fight maternal and infant mortality by supporting ...
New Gambian President Names Woman As His Vice
President of Gambia Adama Barrow has named Fatoumata Tambajang as his Vice. Tambajang has ever been a good mediator engaging ...
Exiled Gambians Ponder Return To Troubled Homeland
Musa Saidykhan still feels the ache in the scars knotting across his back when the temperature drops every winter in ...
Chiefs In Upper East Reduce Dowry To Make Marriage Attractive
The Kusaug Traditional Council in the Upper East Region has reduced bride price from four cows to two. The decision ...
Chiefs Reduce Dowry By Two Cows To Make Marriage Attractive
The Kusaug Traditional Council in the Upper East Region has reduced bride price from four cows to two. The decision ...
Jammeh Deserves Hard Butt-Kicking
Even by West African standards, The Gambia, with a population of just under 2 million, is a very small country. ...
Meet A Proud FGM Cutter From Sierra Leone
More than 200 million women and girls alive today have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) or cutting. The practice has ...
First Female Gambian Presidential Candidate Withdraws
In a statement sent to AFP, Isatou Touray said she was dropping out of the contest "so as to offer ...
Who Wants To Be President of Somalia?
As far as presidential positions go, Somalia must rank as one of the toughest in the world. The Horn of ...
17-Year-Old Egyptian Teenager Dies during Female Circumcision Operation
Egyptian prosecutors are investigating the death of a teenage girl during a female circumcision operation at a private hospital, health ...