Two Somali Sisters Dead After Being Forced To Undergo FGM
Despite there being more and more resistance to the barbaric procedure, the practice of female genital mutilation, or circumcision, is still carried out in Somalia, usually before a girl reaches puberty and becomes mature enough to refuse.
As reported by CNN, two sisters, 10-year-old Aasiyo Abdi Warsame and 11-year-old Khadijo, died a day after being forced to have the procedure in the remote village of Arawda in Puntland State on September 11.
Hawa Aden Mohamed, the director of the Somalia’s women’s rights group Galkayo Education Center for Peace and Development, says the sisters were cut by the same local circumciser on the same day. The girls had continued to bleed after the procedure, and after 24 hours, their mother tried to take them to a local hospital. Tragically, they didn’t get as far as the hospital, with both sisters passing away on the way.
