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Slowly, but surely tide turning on Female Genital Mutilation

NAIROBI: Every year, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) scars thousands of young women and girls in Kenya physically and emotionally, for life.

As President Barack Obama said during his recent visit to Kenya, "There's no reason that young girls should suffer genital mutilation..." This tradition has "no place in the 21st century."

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