Despite being banned in 2011, the tradition of circumcising girls is still practiced in many rural parts of Kenya.

Pictures of girls participating in the ceremony in the village of Pokot, 80 kilometres from the town of Marigat in Baringo County, in 2014.

Despite being banned in 2011, the tradition of circumcising girls is still practiced in many rural parts of Kenya. Reuters photographer Siegfried Modola captured these pictures of four girls taking part in a ceremony in Pokot, a village about 80 kilometres from the town of Marigat in Baringo County, in 2014.Photo: Reuters

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