‘Men must be involved in the fight against girls being cut, it’s a violation’

Female genital mutilation cannot be considered solely a women's issue' if it is to be stamped out by 2030, say male campaigners in Guinea, Somalia, Kenya and Nigeria

• How $10 radios and taxi bikes are helping to end the mutilation of girls

There is a case from Dr Morissanda Kouyate's career that stays with him.

In 1983, Kouyate, then 32, was working at a village hospital in Guinea when 12-year-old twins, Hassantou and Housseynatou, were brought in. Through wails, their relatives told Kouyate that earlier that day, the girls had been taken into the bush to be submitted to genital mutilation. Now, they were barely conscious and bleeding heavily.