The Gambia's Supreme Court is preparing to rule on the legality of the country's 2015 ban on female genital mutilation (FGM), a decision that survivors and mothers say will determine whether girls remain protected under the law. The case follows parliament's rejection last year of a bill to repeal the ban, and comes amid persistent enforcement failures — with an estimated three in four Gambian women having undergone the practice despite its criminalisation. Mothers who have endured FGM themselves, including one whose daughter was cut without her consent while she was away on a business trip, say they fear girls will face even greater danger if the legal prohibition is weakened or removed.