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With classrooms closed to curb coronavirus, girls are more at risk of FGM, teenage pregnancy and child marriage. Thirteen-year-old Gumato* can finally walk again without feeling pain. The hot desert wind blows through her curly hair as she strolls between the portable, dome-shaped huts, made of acacia roots and covered …

Sudan has criminalised carrying out Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), making it punishable by three years in jail. Some 87% of Sudanese women aged between 14 and 49 have undergone some form of FGM, according to the United Nations. In Sudan it is common for women to get the inner and …