{"id":30624,"date":"2023-12-06T15:02:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T14:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2023\/12\/06\/fgm-survivor-shamsa-araweelo-on-her-campaign-to-end-the-harmful-practice\/"},"modified":"2023-12-06T15:02:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T14:02:48","slug":"fgm-survivor-shamsa-araweelo-on-her-campaign-to-end-the-harmful-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2023\/12\/06\/fgm-survivor-shamsa-araweelo-on-her-campaign-to-end-the-harmful-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"FGM survivor Shamsa Araweelo on her campaign to end the harmful practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A woman who was forced to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) as a young child in her native Somalia has told FRANCE 24 how she managed to turn her life around and transform her horrific experience into a force for good. Shamsa Araweelo has received around 70 million views of her TikTok videos, in which she explains using rubber models exactly what FGM does to a woman. Now based in the UK, she&rsquo;s campaigning to help those affected and to try to end the dangerous practice. She spoke to us in Perspective.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman who was forced to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) as a young child in her native Somalia has told FRANCE 24 how she managed to turn her life around and transform her horrific experience into a force for good. Shamsa Araweelo has received around 70 million views of her TikTok videos, in which &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-30624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}