Sudan makes female genital cutting a crime in “new era” for women’s rights
Nairobi, KenyaThomson Reuters Foundation Sudan has criminalised female genital mutilation, making it punishable by three years in jail, a move campaigners said ushered in a “new era” for women’s rights in the African nation. Almost nine out of 10 women and girls in predominately Muslim Sudan have undergone FGM, United Nations data show. The procedure […]