{"id":21384,"date":"2015-11-25T08:57:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T08:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/gambia-s-yahya-jammeh-bans-female-genital\/"},"modified":"2015-11-25T08:56:45","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T08:56:45","slug":"gambia-s-yahya-jammeh-bans-female-genital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/gambia-s-yahya-jammeh-bans-female-genital\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambia’s Yahya Jammeh bans female genital mutilation"},"content":{"rendered":"

{The Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh has banned female genital mutilation (FGM) saying it is not required in Islam.}<\/p>\n

The announcement at a rally was met with a huge applause, AFP reports.
\nThree-quarters of women in the mostly Muslim country have had the procedure, according to Unicef.<\/p>\n

In the procedure’s most severe form, after removing the sensitive clitoris, the genitals are cut and stitched closed so that the woman cannot have or enjoy sex.<\/p>\n

FGM, also known as female circumcision, can be extremely painful, lead to tetanus, gangrene, HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C and effective sterilisation.<\/p>\n

The president’s announcement said the ban was effective immediately.
\nIt is not clear when a law will be passed to allow the ban to be enforced.
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\nTypes of FGM
\n\u2022Clitoridectomy – partial or total removal of the clitoris
\n\u2022Excision – removal of the clitoris and inner labia (lips), with or without the outer labia
\n\u2022Infibulation – cutting, removing and sewing up the genitalia
\n\u2022Any other type of intentional damage to the female genitalia (burning, scraping et cetera)<\/p>\n

\"President<\/figure>\n

SOURCE:BBC:[Gambia’s Yahya Jammeh bans female genital mutilation->http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-34921135]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

{The Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh has banned female genital mutilation (FGM) saying it is not required in Islam.} The announcement at a rally was met with a huge applause, AFP reports. Three-quarters of women in the mostly Muslim country have had the procedure, according to Unicef. In the procedure’s most severe form, after removing the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000070372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-21384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":{"id":2000070372,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21384.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21384.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21384.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21384.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21384.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21384.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000070372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21384"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=21384"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=21384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}