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Over 70 girls in Nandi County graduate from special training

Seventy-nine teenage girls in Nandi County have graduated from an alternative rite of passage that has replaced the outlawed female genital mutilation (FGM).

The girls aged between eight and 16 years graduated after a two-week camp that culminated in the colourful coming out ceremony dubbed 'Tumdo Nelel'.

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