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The women-only gym breaking stereotypes in Somalia

AFP, 05 Feb 2021
Somali student Aisha Muhyadin is the co-founder of the first gym in Mogadishu to offer a workout space dedicated to women. During the day, Binish Gym is women-only, before opening its doors to men at night. Opened in 2017, this female-oriented and female-managed gym is an outlier in socially conservative Somalia.

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