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Puntland State in Somalia to ban female genital mutilation

Puntland State in Somalia to ban female genital mutilation Violators of ban to face penalty, says justice minister of first state in Somalia to ban practice 2021-06-10 21:48:50 MOGADISHU, Somalia Somalia s semiautonomous state of Puntland on Thursday completely banned female genital mutilation (FGM), officials announced. The decision came after a cabinet meeting chaired by the state s President Said Abdullahi Deni in state capital Garowe, where the ministers voted to completely ban the practice, also known as female circumcision. Awil Sheikh, the justice minister of the northeastern state, told reporters that violators of the ban, including the hospitals and midwives as well as individuals, would face punishment.

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ISS: Somalia misses a vital meeting with the electorate

defenceWeb Written by ISSAfrica - 97 Politicians have allowed ongoing quarrels over the centralisation of power to put a hold on democracy. It wasn’t even going to be a real one-person, one-vote election. That had been the original plan but had proved too ambitious. So Somalia reverted to its previous practice – an indirect election where powerful clan elders would elect delegates who would elect legislators who would elect the national president. But even that relatively modest ambition proved too much for the Somali politicians to implement, and so no election was held this week on the appointed date of 8 February. A country already battling to navigate stormy seas then entered even less charted waters. This was the first time elections had been delayed beyond the expiration of the government’s mandate – without an agreed plan on the way forward.

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