"I was subjected to it at the age of five," says French author Halimata Fofana, a victim of female genital mutilation (FGM) as a child. With the publication of her second novel, "A l'ombre de la cité Rimbaud" ("In the shadow of the Rimbaud estate", in French), published by Editions du Rocher, she intends to break the silence and move the lines, at a time when the fight against this practice has been undermined by the Covid-19 pandemic. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES