Liberia: Liberia Moves to Outlaw FGM, but Can Cultural Practitioners Let Go?

25th November 2025
[Liberian Observer] Smoke is wafting over the air, as Yamah Torkpa stirs the pot of food, she's preparing for the workers harvesting her rice. As one of the female zoes known for circumcising teen girls, a local practice known as Female Genital Mutination, Torkpa is late on her harvest due to her business with the initiation of over five hundred girls months ago.

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