At least 300 girls in south-western Kenya have fled from home and sought refuge in churches in a bid to escape forced female genital mutilation (FGM).
The girls, some as young as nine, are at two rescue centres in rural Nyanza province, police told the BBC.
Female circumcision is banned in Kenya, but remains common in some areas where it is considered to be part of a girl's initiation into womanhood. More...
See also:
- Egyptian women fight genital mutilation...
- The horrors of female genital mutilation...
- The "child witches" of Nigeria... WTF! This is crazy...
- Genocide: India's missing daughters...
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