Liberia and Sierra Leone do not have any explicit national laws banning FGM/C, yet managed to record some of the biggest declines in prevalence among the countries that practice it.
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Rebeccah, a Masai girl and near-victim of FGM from Kajiado, Kenya. She escaped the cut. (Photo/ Flickr/ Rajmund Dabrowski/ ANN)