first girl she was tall. but this girl the right. one to. become the world's biggest jerk. to. start to get married t. w. this is steve harvey news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes its international day off zero tolerance for female genital mutilation we'll hear from the young african women championing the fight against the practice in their communities. and we'll introduce you to the twelve year old boy that has the odd community and a. president emanuel crowd is also

a huge fan. i'm christine window welcome to news africa i'm glad you're cheated in the united nations has dedicated today to raising awareness about female genital mutilation if g.m. as it's also known is the partial or total removal of the female external genitalia or the injury to the female genital organs for medical reasons if g.m. is known to be practiced in about thirty countries in africa but it is on the decline and young women at the forefront of challenging this i mean activists. will never forget the day it happened to her. a few of the people siesta when i think about the day my parents took me and gave me to those women who had tools

that i have never seen before so that they could do this to me. that. well to be honest i was mostly and with my parents because they have betrayed me they didn't really tell me where i was going in morning even though will idea is that they just told me i had to go on holiday and then i was faced with this when i got there. she says i'm traumatized when anyone talks to me about female circumcision i feel i can't breathe it eats away at me here if you set some rules some laws of it officially at g.m. has been banned in guinea since the year two thousand but the statistic tell another story ninety seven percent of women in the country have been cut that means that after somalia guinea is the african country where this practice is most common but there is resistance one thousand year old had just found out the group young girls he just kept in two thousand and sixteen with seven friends the club now has

more than two hundred members across any defy for the rights of women and girls and against after and in all its forms. to. be deported to the yes if it's important to remember that in some guinea and communities it don't carry out exemption but in fibula who did this so the lab here together so that they can be ripped open on the wedding night them up it will be my years in dishy it caught us cars which lead to infections which has all sorts of consequences the sick at least is it got too many to name. because they're fictional can even lead to death is only good but. if it was a girl when it was this it would be a good. girls still being cut doing initiation rituals in the forest without anaesthetic naturally the girls put up a fight so several women restrained them and pushed them to the ground it's not

uncommon for the girls to end up with broken bones. her and her fellow campaigners are often on the road in guinea to raise awareness of the use films to spread their message on issues such as sex education their goal is to help women and girls to emancipate themselves and to know their rights that's vital in a country where every other girl is married off before her eighteenth birthday sixty three percent of marriages are arranged and eighty five percent of women report experiences of domestic violence. all these what. we reaching out back at the grassroots level and he's also what it is if we hope that educated professional girls won't fall victim to g.m. or get forced into marriage who expect to see positive results on this team could lose it doesn't oppose it if. cultures can change her journey and her fellow

campaigners assure that they are fighting for new guinea and which has no place for violence against women and girls ok jad is africa's regional goodwill ambassador for the united nations women and she's also the founder of safe hands for girls and she joins me now from the gambia jabs i guess so much for for talking to us today you have personally experienced female genital mutilation could you just talk to us about your experiences now and how it's impacted your life. i remember going to g.m.t. that you knew already i went through you know going to obviously when i was one so i don't remember what that was like to go through down cover but i will until this fact is as an adult and. i mean just speaking in general terms when it comes

actually i mean. on a woman's body from physical consequences to psychological effects and this is something bad once you group through it is something that you have to live with for the rest of your life yet it's certainly something that you're having to live with for the rest of your life but a lot of women in countries where if chamas practiced in support if they are in favor of the practice right so it's been done to their men and they wanted to be done to their daughters and in fact some research tells us that in africa more women than men support the practice and i just wanted to get a sense of through your activism what are some of the reasons why this tradition is just it's so difficult to get rid off. well in a lot of places the fact is as you know in the in actually half of societies and women have been conditioned to believe that this is the good for them and it's

something that they have to go through and put their boots through in order for them to be manageable and their gotos don't fall through x. g.m. no one would manage them and then we'll see them as on clean so i was a result of that it's women who are practiced i see them on the other woman what that doesn't lessen the scene it doesn't make it any longer is just by when we see women in domestic violence solutions and they keep asking why didn't she just needs and i was you know just because something first there's a new cheap easy for you the soft and g.m. is the do the live traditional practice i have been around for centuries and it is the only thing because women know so well to change a lot of times we have to learn some of the things that we learned along the way and that takes i'm. sure that's exile job so if g.m. was back and in the gambia in two thousand and fifteen and your campaign was

railing at the front of that right is according to what i've read it was your campaign that that actually force them president obama to to ban the practice in the gambit i just wondered how effective has the ben actually been. you know we just had a conversation about back to day with who there is an international n.g.o.s i mean when a lot of people. or will a disappearance more in a resort they want us to be appealed a lot but german band s.t.m. parliaments want to head in a lot which makes it a gambian law not a president general and i think this new administration should do better when it comes to instruments in the more this happens but i think overall as a country we are progressing when it comes to energy have been so much improvement when it comes to no changes not because of the law but because of the advocacy in working with communities going on. thank you for your work and great talking to you

just had to korea africa's recent goodwill ambassador for un women as and and and see if she ever acts of asst the next story is one of those you won't believe without seeing a young boy with an incredible drawing talent has shot to fame in nigeria and even has a fan in france's president emmanuel mccracken after he drew a portrait of him that day devon is throwing a shoe or pay the young artist a visit. every detail matters why risk is to make this join look like a high definition photograph at just twelve years of age karim is the youngest realism artist in maine geria. destroying are usually inspired by his environment and his family sure grew to survive he says the moment he saw this image he knew he

wanted to use it. was close to a. close. and. what's. seizure is the name of kareem's latest drawing he started drawing comics when he was just three years old he needs are joining the i you will be at academy an art school that started as a makeshift learning center for children in this poor lagos neighborhood to does help him to improve his talent within weeks after posting his first joint online he same spread all about being intelligent especially after you drew a portrait of french president manuel last year this is the end of the we

haven't really done through all these. i think this is the beginning of a blow so what's. after his big break with president corn the kareem family was invited to move to a new apartment while the why reece was transferred to a better school as a gift from the government according to an official statement the government's intention is to make sure the boy isn't the best and vironment to not show his talents meanwhile the art academy where why reece got his start now has a far more studio that's more conducive for young students to learn odds. because i didn't know to go to the root of foods. with. good tools. if.

you know. why resteal comes to be academy every weekend and when he's not trolling he's learning new techniques from textbooks he says adds has always been a way for him to escape hard times. like. good. just. i just. say why reece is now well known locally but he wants to keep improving until he becomes a global star. and they've no doubt he will be that's it for now from news africa you can catch all our stories on our website and facebook page so we're leaving you with images off workers at the dillo salt flats in ethiopia the salt harvested hero

was deposited by siding from the red sea get this at least thirty thousand years ago told next time i if i. take a closer look at modern culture from germany to be a. culture. extra

begin to. really know their stuff. and definitional. the guardianship with dishes from around the world. groups every week. hello and welcome to news from the world of arts and culture i'm robin merrill and here's a quick look at what's coming up today film fans have already started lining up for tickets the birdland international film festival is about to kick off we'll take a look what's coming up over the next week and the heart. and series baking bread

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