If it succeeds, the Gambia, a small West African nation of fewer than 3 million people, would be the first country in the world to make FGM legal agai...

More than 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone FGM in 30 countries in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.

The President stressed the importance of men's involvement in ending the practice and promoting gender equality.

Since the county launched the Anti-FGM Action Plan back in 2022, the county has recorded a drop in prevalence from 94% to 62%.

A UNFPA-UNICEF study shows 89 per cent of boys and men, along with 92 per cent of girls and women, oppose FGM.

The United Nations identifies FGM as "an extreme form of discrimination against women and girls.”