44 girls rescued as efforts to end FGM in border towns intensify

Kisii Woman Rep Dorice Donya Aburi at Kisii GBV center, where she sent off more than 100 girls for alternative rites of passage training. [Sammy Omingo, Standard]

Some 44 minors have been rescued in Migori County as efforts to end cross-border Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) intensify, with December being circumcision season among the Kuria community.

Migori County Commissioner, Meru Mwangi, said five children were rescued in the morning of December 8 at Mabera, Kuria West sub-county, after police got a tip-off of an FGM exercise that was being conducted in Ntunyigi village.