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"The practice of fanado, or female genital mutilation, could soon be outlawed by a new bill to be presented to the Guinea-Bissau parliament. FGM is common in 28 African countries, in some in the Middle East, and amongst the immigrant communities of these countries living abroad.
Many of the country's 30 ethnic groups practice it, including all the Muslim communities, about 46 percent of the population, especially in the eastern regions of Gabu and Bafatá. FGM is prohibited in the neighbouring countries of Senegal, Guinea-Conakry, Burkina Faso and Niger, so practitioners and Senegalese girls cross the border to perform the ceremony in Guinea-Bissau, where it is not a crime. [..] During the Muslim month of Ramadan, when people fast from dawn to sunset, Muslim men do not accept food from an uncircumcised Muslim woman and she will not be allowed to pray in a mosque. This was why women from non-Muslim ethnic groups who marry Muslim men are forced to undergo female genital mutilation, said Baldé."
