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UNFPA ESARO | Act to End FGM in Africa


Act to End FGM in Africa
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11 February 2021
Cross-border FGM needs to be halted urgently. More than 70 per cent of women and girls from Somalia, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda who underwent FGM travelled to Kenya for this purpose, a recent study has shown. © UNFPA/Georgina Goodwin
Blog by Dr. Julitta Onabanjo, UNFPA Regional Director for East and Southern Africa
February 2021
 
I grew up knowing that in the many communities of my birth place in Nigeria, female genital mutilation (FGM) was prevalent. Today, 20 million girls in Nigeria have undergone FGM and the majority (82 per cent) were cut before the age of 5 years. ....

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