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| Africa Live: Liberia's leader sets up task force to fight corruption - BBC News | Africa Live: Liberia's leader sets up task force to fight corruption - BBC News |
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| Will Ross | |
| Africa editor, BBC World Service | |
| The United Nations has called on members of parliament in The Gambia to withdraw a bill lifting the ban on female genital mutilation (FGM). | |
| The Gambia's parliament began examining the legislation on Monday. | |
| FGM was banned in The Gambia in 2015. | |
| Influential Muslim clerics have been pushing for the ban to be repealed, while women's rights activists want it to remain. | |
| The UN says more than three-quarters of Gambian women and girls aged between 15 and 49 have undergone FGM. | |
| The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights described the bill as abhorrent. | |
| It said it was crucial that The Gambia continued to protect the rights and dignity of all, especially women and girls. | |
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