{"id":1582,"date":"2018-09-19T15:02:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T14:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2018-09-19T15:02:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T14:02:38","slug":"burkina-faso-botched-fgm-leaves-50-girls-in-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/burkina-faso-botched-fgm-leaves-50-girls-in-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Burkina Faso botched FGM leaves 50 girls in hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Around 50 girls are being treated in hospital in Burkina Faso after botched circumcisions, or female genital mutilation (FGM), a minister says.<\/p>\n<p>Not all girls who underwent the circumcision have been traced, Minister of Women&#8217;s Affairs, Laurence Marshall Ilboudo, said.<\/p>\n<p>Two 60-year-old women, along with the parents of some of the girls, have been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>FGM has been illegal in Burkina Faso since 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Offenders face up to three years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>About three-quarters of women and girls in Burkina Faso have undergone circumcision, but only 9% favour the practice, according to UN children agency Unicef.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/world-africa-45546165\">Africa Live: More on this and others from the continent<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-38016161\">My quarrel with a proud FGM cutter<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-45442795\">UK schoolgirls &#8216;pressured into FGM&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The circumcisions took place in the Kaya area, about 100km (60 miles) north of the capital, Ouagadougou, between 4 and 6 September.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the victims are as young as four years, authorities say.<\/p>\n<p>A dozen girls have been admitted to the Kaya Regional Hospital and 38 to the Chiphra Protestant Hospital in the capital.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the girls had suffered serious complications, Dr Dieudonne Ouedraogo told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-45551615\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-45551615<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 50 girls are being treated in hospital in Burkina Faso after botched circumcisions, or female genital mutilation (FGM), a minister says. Not all girls who underwent the circumcision have been traced, Minister of Women&#8217;s Affairs, Laurence Marshall Ilboudo, said. Two 60-year-old women, along with the parents of some of the girls, have been arrested. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[420],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fgm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1583,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions\/1583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}