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A 13-year-old girl, Fartun Hassan Ahmed, died after undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM) on 11th July 2021 in a small village of Jeerinle, roughly 160km from Galkayo, the capital of the north-central Mudug region Galmudug regional state in Somalia...
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“We didn’t know what to do when we saw the bleeding. We booked a car to take the girl to hospital but unfortunately, she died when the car arrived”, her 45-year-old mother Nadifo Ahmed said. The girl bled to death around 4.00 PM, having been cut at 6.00 AM. Cc. @melindagates
FGM in Somalia has been carried out for hundreds of years because most people believe it is a religious obligation, though Christian and Muslim religious scholars have repeatedly condemned it. The message that #FGMNotMyReligion has not reached many across Africa and Asia.
