Tag: FGM

Huge win for Maasai girl as renowned FGM cutters reform

It’s a big win for the Maasai community girls as a section of famous Female Genital Mutilation women cutters in Kajiado County reformed and declared they will champion against the vice. The groups of more than 10 elderly women aged above 60 years have cut more than 30, 000 girls in the community and across […]

Murang’a Women Rep Sabina Chege wants security personnel to probe cult promoting FGM

Murang’a women representative Sabina Wanjiru Chege wants the security agents to probe a certain cult that is said to be promoting female genital mutilation. Chege said she has received reports from several members of the public and wants action taken to curb the spread of the vice. Speaking during a public forum convened by the […]

RC Natembeya wants women who have undergone FGM be classified as people living with disabilities

Rift Valley Regional Commissioner George Natembeya now wants women who have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) to be classified as people living with disabilities. Speaking in Trans Nzoia County, Natembeya raised concerns over the increasing cases of FGM adding that the act is tantamount to incapacitating women. “We know the anatomy of boys is set […]

Over 400 girls circumcised in ‘rush for dowry’ as Covid-19 batters rural Kenya

West Pokot County activist says that over 500 girls, many of them schoolgoing, have been circumcised amid Covid-19 pandemic.

Court frees two sisters who circumcised each other

Narok court freed the two, saying they were minors and prosecution had failed to produce appropriate charges against them.

Uhuru reveals what his late father believed in, but he doesn’t

President Uhuru Kenyatta on Friday said, unlike his late father Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, he does not approve of female genital mutilation.

Man arrested for marrying 12-year-old girl

By Jephitha Mwai. Police in Narok County on Sunday, July 14 arrested a 40-year-old man on suspicion of marrying an underage girl. Acting on a tip-off from Olooltoto Village residents, police arrested the quadragenarian at his home, where he was found with the 12-year-old girl, whom he recently married according to Maasai customs. Narok County […]