Kenyan efforts to end FGM suffer blow with victims paraded in 'open defiance'

Almost 3,000 girls from the Kuria community have undergone female genital mutilation in recent weeks, despite crackdown

Kenya has seen a setback in its progress to eradicate female genital mutilation (FGM) after an open parade in defiance of the government clampdown on the practice took place this week.

Almost 2,800 girls from the Kuria community in south-western Kenya have undergone FGM, which involves the removal of the outer layers of female genitalia and sometimes the clitoris, in the past three weeks, say local activists.