FREETOWN - Wearing a fading Mickey Mouse T-shirt, her knees hugged to her chest, eight-year-old Musu Kamara sits in a corrugated shack in Sierra Leone's capital waiting for her initiation into a ...

A Sierra Leonean human rights activist currently based in Sydney, Australia, Magdalene Sambo Konneh, who has been advocating against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM),has called on the police and other ...

Freetown — The campaign to have female genital mutilation (FGM) outlawed in Sierra Leone seems to have taken a nose-dive with Bondo initiators - known locally as 'Soweis' - apparently continuing to ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Simon Ottenberg photographs of Limba and Afikpo Peoples Simon Ottenberg photographs of Limba and Afikpo Peoples / Series 1: Limba Peoples, Sierra ...

Young girls in white face paint take part in a procession to start their initiation into the Bondo secret society, alongside a figure called the Black Devil. [AFP] Wearing a fading Mickey Mouse ...

Young girls in white face paint take part in a procession to start their initiation into the Bondo secret society, alongside a figure called the Black Devil. AFP photo Wearing a fading Mickey Mouse ...

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Wearing a fading Mickey Mouse T-shirt, her knees hugged to her chest, eight-year-old Musu Kamara sits in a corrugated shack in Sierra Leone's capital waiting for her initiation into a secret society.