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| | Anti-FGM protocol ratified but huge challenges remain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Women from all over Africa, however, hailed the prime minister of Djibouti, Mohamed Dileita Dileita, as he ratified the protocol on 2 February. |
 | | He also announced "the Djibouti Declaration", a statement that committed his country, which has a 98 percent FGM prevalence rate, to end the practice. |
 | | Diariatou Kourouma, programme officer with the Inter-African Committee, an NGO dedicated to fighting FGM, posed the question whether Prophet Mohammed had the practice performed on his own family. |
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