you think. it's a big chance because this is about. truth detectives starts feb fifteenth. w. . this is steve harvey news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes it's international day on 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 community and. president emmanuel cross is also a huge fan and. i'm

christine window 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 t.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 or 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 this i mean activists. will never forget the day it happened to her. a full physical 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. prove 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 mourning even the will idea and they just told me i had to go on holiday and then i was faced with this when i got there he said pratik. 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 so a lot of it officially after 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 the african country where this practice is most common but there is resistance one thousand year old had just founded the group young girls need to stop 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 f.e.m. in all its forms. of arguably

yes it includes it's important to remember that in some guinea and communities it don't carry out exertion but in fibula who got this so the lab yet together so that they can be ripped open on the wedding night them up it will be where years dishy it caught us cars which lead to infections which has all sorts of consequences the sick at least is sick at too many to name one cause it. can even lead to death we only got to see where. this was the people who did good. girls still being caught 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. and her

fellow campaigners are often on the road in guinea to raise awareness to use films to spread their message on issues such as sex education to 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 in eighty five percent of women report experiences of domestic violence. all these were steady we're reaching out at the grassroots level and he's also what are easy 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 a 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 jazz i guess so much 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 g m p q that you knew already i went through you know goto mutilation when i was one or so i don't remember what that was like to go through down news covered 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 look but for

the rest of your life yet is certainly something that you're having to live with for the rest of your life but a lot of women in countries where if g.m. has 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 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 good for them and it's something that they have to go through and force their beliefs through in order for their daughters to be manageable and if 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've seen them on the other woman what that doesn't lessen the scene you busy naked and in france is just by when we see women in domestic violence solutions and they keep asking why didn't she just leave and i was you know just because something for us as a new cheap easy for you to suck and i g m is a do deep rooted traditional practice i have been around for centuries and it isn't really a thing because women know so well to change a lot of times we have to be on learn some of the things that we learned along the way and not take science that showed that safe side i'm job so yes jim was back and in the gambia in two thousand and fifteen and your campaign was really at the front of that right as if according to what i've read it was your campaign that that actually for same president as jemma to to ban the practice in the gambia and

i just wondered how we say active has the ben actually been. well we just had a conversation about back to day with food there is 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 to to be appealed a lot but jaromir 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 incentives in the more it 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 not change not because of the law but because of the advocacy in working with communities of color in our. thank you for your work and great talking to you just had to korea africa's racial goodwill ambassador for u.n. 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 death he is throwing a shoe or pay the young artist a visit. every detail mark why risk karim's aim is to make this drawing look like a high definition photograph at just twelve years of age kerry 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 constantly.

close. and. what's. fission is the name of kareem's latest drawing he started drawing comics when he was just three years old he need to join the i you will be at academy and out school that started as a makeshift learning center for children in this poor legal us neighborhood tutors helped him to improve his talents within weeks after posting his first joint online he same spread all over the internet especially after you drew a portrait of french president manuel last year this is the result that we haven't really seen the rule this is. i think this is the beginning of a blow so one thousand. after his big break with president korn the karriem

family was invited to move to a new apartment while the reese 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 arts. because i didn't know to go to the root of. the. you know in the. north korea. why resteal comes to the akademi every

weekend and when he's not trolling he's learning new techniques from textbooks he says has always been a way for him to escape hard times that's. 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 stories on our website and facebook page so we're leaving you with images off work because at the dillo soltz flats in ethiopia the so-called histed hero was deposited by flooding from the red sea get this at least thirty thousand years ago told next time i if i.

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