Egypt has banned all female circumcision after the death this week of a 12-year-old girl undergoing the widely practised procedure. Budour Ahmad Shaker died from an overdose of anaesthetic at a ...

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Female genital mutilation has decreased in Egypt since the procedure was outlawed in 2007, but women’s groups say more work is needed to change society’s thinking toward the practice. The procedure, ...