NAIROBI (Reuters) - Imagine having no sensation in a body part for most of your life and then being able to feel it at last. That was the transformation being sought by about 60 Kenyan women who had ...

Adele Koue Sungbeu underwent female genital mutilation as a teenager but now holds her head up high and smiles broadly as she walks to work in Abidjan after reconstructive surgery. The 45-year-old ...

Dr Abdullahi Adan, Consultant : Plastic , Reconstructive and Aesthetic /General Surgeon at Platinum Surgery Centre. [Elvis Ogina, Standard] It's 3pm and despite the fact that my appointment with Dr ...

CAIRO (AP) — She remembers it all: How female relatives held her down when she was 11, legs spread and genitals exposed. The fear that stiffened her body. The stranger in black holding the scissors.

In 2020, surgeons Reham Awwad and Amr Seifeldin became the first to offer the procedure in Egypt through their clinic, Restore FGM — Khaled DESOUKI Intissar was only 10 years old when she was forced ...

Currently, the reconstructive surgery is only available privately and costs around $700 - putting it beyond the reach of all but the elite in Senegal, where an estimated one in four women are cut ...

Adele Koue Sungbeu, 45, is one of 28 women in Ivory Coast who had reconstructive surgery after being circumcised French obstetric surgeon Sarah Abramowicz has helped train 10 surgeons from six ...