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Calls for alert as girls undergo FGM during 'night parties'

Blade used in mutilating female genitalia in Uganda. [File, Standard]

The long December festive season is exposing school girls to the risk of forced Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), teenage pregnancies and early marriages in parts of West Pokot County.

Lobby groups advocating against the anti-social vices in the region said unless security agencies intensify their surveillance during the season, innocent girls might be taken through the outlawed rite.

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