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Read more about the article A Midwife Frightened by the problems that FGM Survivors & mothers to be face – Speaks out on Radio Jijiga, Ethiopia  

A Midwife Frightened by the problems that FGM Survivors & mothers to be face – Speaks out on Radio Jijiga, Ethiopia  

Ubah Jamal Mohamed is a Journalist working for Jijiga FM Radio and a journalist by trained Global Media Campaign for the last two years to do the best the media campaigns. Ubah is a media campaigner who is interested in ending FGM and eradicating harmful traditional practices in the Somali region.

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Read more about the article GOOBJOOG SOMALI TV Invite Journalists to Talk about how they are Key Influencers in Fighting to End FGM, Somalian region, Ethiopia 

GOOBJOOG SOMALI TV Invite Journalists to Talk about how they are Key Influencers in Fighting to End FGM, Somalian region, Ethiopia 

My name is Muhiyadin Mohamed Aden, a Somali journalist from Goobjoog TV Jigjiga Office. Since joining the media campaign in this region to eradicate female genital mutilation I have participated in discussions as well as programs, I have got many opportunities to easily share with the community the problems of female genital mutilation. I decided to organise a media debate about the role of journalists in fighting against FGM.

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Read more about the article Stop Kuria Easter FGM – Kenyan and Tanzanian stakeholders come together to Plan a way forward to  End Cross border-FGM

Stop Kuria Easter FGM – Kenyan and Tanzanian stakeholders come together to Plan a way forward to  End Cross border-FGM

Over the 2021 December holidays, there was a surge of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) cases in the Kuria region of both Kenya and Tanzania. Cutting started in Tanzania and crossed into Kenya where an estimated 500 girls were cut. Activists in Kenya have expressed fears of a possible FGM surge in the same region when schools close from 5th March to 25th April, a period that also features the Easter holidays. It is on this background that GMC organised a two-days strategy meeting, bringing together activists and journalists from both Kenya and Tanzania to come plan and come up with strategies to curb the anticipated surge of FGM along the borderline 

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Read more about the article Efe Ambrose Interview in The Times National Newspaper about the #BornPerfect campaign to End FGM 

Efe Ambrose Interview in The Times National Newspaper about the #BornPerfect campaign to End FGM 

Efe Ambrose is the father of three children, two of whom are daughters. He now lives with his family in Scotland but remains attached to Nigeria and the fate of its people. Taken from The Times Interview below are some tweetable quotes to share about how Efe feels about the practice of FGM and his decision to join the #BornPerfect campaign.

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