My name is Genet Shume and I am the programme director for ActionAid Ethiopia. I am passionate about women’s rights and justice for women. I studied law as my first degree and worked for the Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association, and then the Federal Supreme Court Child Justice Project Office, before joining ActionAid. We provided free.....

My name is Zamzam Hassan. I am a 29 year-old Somali woman born and raised in Garissa County in northeastern Kenya, 367kms from the capital, Nairobi. Garissa has one of the highest rates of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the world at 82.5%.   I went through FGM at the age of 7. My mother took.....

Sitting beneath an acacia tree in the village of Abagadera, Garissa County, eastern Kenya, a warm breeze and the shade offers a welcome reprieve from the heavy afternoon heat.    Here, Rehema – a 53-year-old woman of Somali origin with a gentle demeanour – shares her powerful story of survival, resilience, and transformation in a region.....