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Female Genital Cutting in Kenya15 Oct 2008
Maasai girls' resistance group

Female genital cutting was outlawed in Kenya in 2001, however, many communities, such as the Pokots and the Maasai, continue to practice FGC as an important rite of passage to womanhood. A 2005 survey of the Maasai community in Ol Donyo Nyokie, in central Kenya’s Kajiado district, found that every girl above the age of 15 had undergone the procedure. Reporter Angela Robson talked to a group of girls in Narok, south-west Kenya, who have denounced the practice, amidst wide-spread condemnation from their community.
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