to stay in office. complex. sixty minutes to go to. work. that you're getting. from africa. the link to it. and discussion. only use a visit our website w two comes not to join or something. for. me. this is steve harvey news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes its international day on his ear zero tolerance for female genital mutilation we'll hear from the young african women championing the fight against the practice in their communities. and will introduce you to the twelve year old boy that has the odd community in. france president emmanuel cotton is also

a huge fan and. i'm christine when the welcome to news africa i'm glad you're tuned 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 of the injury to the female genital organs for medical reasons if jim is known to be practice in about thirty countries in africa but it is on the decline and young women at the forefront of challenging it i mean activists. will never forget the day it happened to her. a few of the poles yes when i do think about the day my parents took me and gave me to those women who had to. calls that i have never seen

before so that they could do this to me. that was 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 war in the world by d.n.a. and what was it 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 here if you see some or all those solos of it visually f.g. and 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 founded the group young girls leader in two thousand and sixteen with seven friends the club now has more

than two hundred members across many to fight for the rights of women and girls and against after and in all its forms. and it will do that yes it is good it's important to remember that in some guinea and communities it don't carry out excision but in fibula who got this so the lab here together so that they can be ripped open on the wedding night swim up it will demand years. it cost us cars which lead to infections which has all sorts of consequences this sick at least is if it got too many to name. because it takes you can even lead to death he only got to see if it was a golf and this was this it would be a good septum important real amel. girls still being caught doing initiation ritual in the forest without anaesthetic naturally the girls put up a fight so several women risk. train them and push them to the ground it's not

uncommon for the girls to end up with broken bones. 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 why. we're reaching out to class back at the grassroots level and he's also what is it we hope that educated professional goals won't fall victim to g.m. or get forced into marriage who expect to see positive results on this doesn't happen. cultures can change 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 that female genital mutilation could you just talk to us about your experiences now and how it's impacted your life. i remember going g.m. because that you knew already i went through you know go to mutilation when i was one so i don't remember what that was like to go through down the cover but i will until this fact is as an adult and. i mean just speaking in general terms when

it comes. on a woman's body from physical consequences to psychological effects in this is something bad once you group through it is something that you have to look at 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 they've 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 actually up 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 for this sort of rules in order for them to be manageable and then go those don't fall through x. g.m. no one would manage them and then we'll see them as on clean so i'm the result of that it's women who are fastest i've seen them on the other woman what that doesn't lessen the scene it doesn't make any wrong is just like when we see a woman in domestic violence solutions and we keep asking then why didn't she just leave and i was you know just because something inside there's a nuke it's easy for you to stop and i g.m. is a do live traditional practice i have been around for centuries and it is the only thing because you women know so well to change a lot of times you have to be on learn some of the things that we learned along the way and not take science. show that sex i am job so that jam was bad and in the gambia in two thousand and fifteen and your campaign was really at the

front of that right is according to what i've read it was your campaign that that action for same president as gemma to to ban the practice in the gabby and i just wondered how effective has the ban actually been. you know we just had a conversation about back to day with food as an international n.g.o.s i mean when a lot of people felt that lor was a disappearance more in a resort they want us to be appealed a lot but jam a band s.t.m. up parliament 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 incentives in the more this happens but i think overall as a country we are progressing when it comes to energy and been so much improvement when it comes to not change not because of the law but because of the advocacy in working with communities going on. thank you for your with and great talking to you

just had to korea africa's recent goodwill ambassador for u.n. women as and and and see if she ever acts of assist 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 across after he drew a portrait of him now death he is throwing a shoe or pay the young artist a visit. every detail martez where risk is to make this joining look like a high definition photograph at just twelve years of age karim is the youngest realism artist in nigeria. 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 leg. 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 legal us neighborhood tutors helps him to improve his talent within weeks after posting his first joint online he same spread all over the internet especially after you drew a poetry of french president emanuel last year this is the reverse of the we

haven't really seen the rule this is. i think this is a pretty reasonable blow so what's a. after his big break with president korn the karriem 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 of the government's intention is to make sure the boy isn't the best environment to not show his talents meanwhile the at 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 which. of. the. tools. if.

you know. why resteal comes to be academy every weekend and when he's not drawing he's learning new techniques from textbooks he says arts has always been a way for him to escape hard times. 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 we have no doubt he will be that's it for now from the 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 de los soltz flats in ethiopia the salt harvested hero was deposited by flooding from the red sea get this at least thirty

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whose own view of matters who's breaking his way around the european union. the sixty ninth burned in film festival about it is about to get underway and it will be the last fall festival directed dita costly he's been in charge for nearly two decades and in that time he's raised its profile to make it one of the major film festivals in the world talks by colleague melissa holroyd about what's in store this year but first a look back cos licks tenure. we caught up with to talk us look at butlins film and television museum. part. of the current photo exhibition there on the history of the bally nala also tells his story as festival director. he took over the helm in two thousand and one. for me got dizzy it was exciting because it's such a huge festival of the number of initiatives we've expanded the film market the

co-production market cooperation with the book and the biggest project was the talent campus called.