Countries: Uganda
Variables: INFIB-DATA-2

"Among these is the continued occurrence of Female Genital Mutilation. Despite low national prevalence, FGM is still practiced in eastern Uganda, particularly across the Karamoja region and Sebei sub-region of Uganda, with a prevalence rate of more than 50% in some sub-counties" (2).

Countries: Sierra Leone
Variables: INFIB-PRACTICE-1, INFIB-LAW-1, INFIB-DATA-2, SEGI-PRACTICE-1

"In neighbouring Sierra Leone, where 83% of women aged 15 to 49 have undergone FGM, the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa and a coalition of 26 feminist movement organisations recently filed two legal cases against the government to compel ministers to enact a law" (para 14).

Countries: Senegal
Variables: INFIB-DATA-2

"FGM is widespread in Matam, carried out on 60% to 79% of women" (par. 10).

Countries: Mali
Variables: INFIB-DATA-2

"In Guinea, our data show 97% of women and girls have undergone FGM/C, while in Mali the figure stands at 83%" (para 7).

Countries: Egypt
Variables: INFIB-DATA-2

"The high prevalence rates in Egypt, with 87% of women and girls affected, are a reminder that FGM/C is not confined to sub-Saharan Africa" (para 7).

Countries: Mauritania
Variables: INFIB-DATA-2

"2019 World Bank data suggests that up to 90 percent of Mauritanian women and girls aged 15-49 years have undergone some form of FGM in their lifetime; the majority of mutilations are performed by traditional practitioners. Women and girls from rural communities and those who haven’t completed secondary schooling are more likely to have experienced FGM than those from urban areas and those who have completed their education" (3).

Countries: Gambia
Variables: INFIB-DATA-2

"Three-quarters of Gambian girls and women of reproductive age have been cut, according to the United Nations children’s agency, UNICEF" (para 9). "Since the ban came under threat almost a year ago, there have been more instances of cutting, said Fatou Baldeh, a survivor of cutting and an anti-cutting campaigner who has won a string of high-profile prizes for her work" (para 14).

Countries: Gambia
Variables: INFIB-DATA-2

"It has been reported that 95 percent of women in some rural areas and 49 percent of women in more urban areas have undergone FGM" (par. 3).

Countries: Sudan
Variables: INFIB-DATA-2

"Both [Chad and Sudan] have outlawed the practice [of FGM] but it continues in secret. The UN children’s agency, Unicef, says that about 87% of Sudanese women aged 14-49 have been cut – one of the highest rates in the world. In Chad, the figure is 34.1%, though rates are higher in the south and east, which is where the camps for Sudanese people have been set up" (2).

Countries: Gambia
Variables: INFIB-DATA-2

"More than three-quarters of Gambian females aged between 15 and 49 have undergone FGM, according to the UN" (6).

Countries: Kenya
Variables: INFIB-DATA-2

“According to The Nation newspaper, about 70 girls were rescued by the police, with Viola Cherono, a human rights activist from the region, reporting that as many as 500 girls had been assembling in the forest to undergo the practice” (12). “ ‘Cases of FGM have come down in communities that were strongly for the cut, mainly because girls have come out to say no,’ said [Bernadette] Loloju [CEO of the Anti-FGM Board in Kenya]” (14-15).

Countries: Central African Rep
Variables: INFIB-DATA-2

"Female genital mutilation affects 24 per cent of women and girls aged between 15 and 49" (23). "The practice of levirate and sororate has somewhat decreased in the light of the increasing prevalence of HIV/AIDS" (32).

Countries: Maldives
Variables: INFIB-DATA-1, INFIB-DATA-2

"Anecdotal evidence suggests that in the Maldives, female circumcision mainly falls in to the Type 4 category. This category includes all other (other than clitoridectomy, excision and infibulation) harmful procedures to the female genitalia for non-medical purposes, e.g. pricking, piercing, incising, scraping and cauterizing the genital area (WHO, 2018). 13% of women age 15–49 are circumcised in the Maldives. The prevalence of female circumcision increases steeply with age, from only 1% from women age 15–19 to 38% among women age 45–49. Female circumcision is performed almost exclusively in early childhood. Thus, 83% of circumcised women reported that they were circumcised when they were younger than age 5, with only 2%...more

Countries: Ethiopia
Variables: INFIB-DATA-2

"[E]fforts contributed to the decrease in the rate of FGM from 56 per cent to 23 per cent" (10). "Child marriage and FGM practices in communities [are minimized]" (26).

Countries: Benin
Variables: INFIB-DATA-2

"And in the song 'L'excision,' they sing about female genital mutilation, which 9.2% of women between the ages of 15 to 49 have undergone in Benin, according to UNICEF. 'Africa, my Africa, we must stop destroying our women,' they sing" (Para. 10).