‘She had a syringe, razor blade, and bandages’: Surviving genital mutilation

Zeinaba Mahr Aouad, a 24-year-old woman from Djibouti, remembers the day when, as a ten-year-old, an unexpected visitor came to her house: “She had a syringe, a razor blade and bandages.” The woman was there to carry out a brutal, unnecessary and – since 1995 in the Horn of Africa country – illegal operation known […]