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Kenyan girls still afflicted by genital mutilation years after ban

Members of the Maasai community, including reformed Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) practitioners. [AFP]

Maasai women erupted with mocking heckles as a community elder, wrapped in a traditional red blanket, claimed that female genital mutilation had all but stopped in their community in southern Kenya.

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