{"id":180628,"date":"2024-09-15T11:20:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T09:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-fgm-practice-still-taking-place-in-nimba-county\/"},"modified":"2024-09-15T11:20:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T09:20:07","slug":"liberia-fgm-practice-still-taking-place-in-nimba-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-fgm-practice-still-taking-place-in-nimba-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: FGM Practice Still Taking Place in Nimba County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Female Genital Mutilation of FGM is reportedly still being practiced or carried on Nimba County by traditional women, prompting Ambassador Juli Endee to raise alarm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Amb. Endee, former Culture Ambassador of Liberia, expressed disappointment at the continuation of the practice of FGM which was banned by the government of Liberia in light of its harmful effects on women, who are often victims of this practice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">In a statement, Ambassador Endee said it is proven that FGM violate the fundamental rights&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409130552.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Female Genital Mutilation of FGM is reportedly still being practiced or carried on Nimba County by traditional women, prompting Ambassador Juli Endee to raise alarm. Amb. Endee, former Culture Ambassador of Liberia, expressed disappointment at the continuation of the practice of FGM which was banned by the government of Liberia in light of its harmful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":180629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,5091,3145,4712,1107,257,2962,8673,18016,254],"class_list":["post-180628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-county","tag-fgm","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-nimba","tag-place","tag-practice","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}