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Freetown, Sierra Leone \u2014 Over 200 million women and girls<\/a> around the world have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM). This is the partial or total removal of the external female genitalia for non-medical reasons.<\/p>\n The largest share of these cases is happening in Africa. FGM has lifelong consequences, including complications during childbirth and painful sex. It also disrupts girls’ education<\/a> and often serves as a gateway to child marriage, trapping them in cycles of poverty. There is a clear…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Freetown, Sierra Leone \u2014 Over 200 million women and girls around the world have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM). This is the partial or total removal of the external female genitalia for non-medical reasons. The largest share of these cases is happening in Africa. FGM has lifelong consequences, including complications during childbirth and painful sex. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":192950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00571762:1dcdbc6ac071a124948af0cf60de4b93:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,4353,7730,6572,7731,257,6202,6571,1135,6992,254],"class_list":["post-192949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-female","tag-genital","tag-leone","tag-mutilation","tag-news","tag-protect","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-silence","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00571762:1dcdbc6ac071a124948af0cf60de4b93:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192949","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=192949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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