As the international community led by the United Nations and its supporting agencies as well as human rights groupings worldwide step up advocacies and campaigns against one of the world's devastatingly barbaric traditional practices, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), a more tangible approach is being put into place to address the problem.
As gathered by this paper, victims of the so-called barbaric tradition of FGM across the West African sub-region are exodusing in mass to a new clitoris repair hospital which is about to open to the public.
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