Young campaigners Fahma Mohamed and Jaha Dukureh have led the global debate on female genital mutilation (FGM).
IN February this year Fahma Mohamed was a 17-year-old student studying for her A-levels in Bristol, south-west England. One of nine girls from a British Somali family, she was, by her own account, not one for the spotlight. Over in Atlanta, Georgia, Jaha Dukureh, a 24-year-old woman originally from Gambia, was juggling a full-time job in a bank with motherhood.
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