Gambia, Senegal Need to Unite to End FGM/C

19 October 2017

Binta Jammeh-Sidibeh, the executive director of Women's Bureau has stated that Gambia and Senegal need to unite and work together in ensuring that the deep-rooted traditional cultural practice of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) is eliminated.

"Securities apparatus within the border villages of the two countries need to work together to strengthen their mutual understanding and be very vigilant because people are now in the habit of smuggling their children to either take them to border villages of Gambia or Senegal for them to be circumcised," she noted.

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