‘We need to talk about this’
The 20-year-old from Mogadishu is an outspoken opponent of female genital mutilation, which an estimated 95-98% of girls in Somalia suffer before they reach the age of 15.
Ifrah has been through it twice, the first time when she was just eight years and the second at the age of 13. “Sometimes that happens — that a girl is circumcised twice. It’s because the wound doesn’t close properly or it’s not tidy.”
