Nasimyu Mwanamis, the headteacher of Katabok Primary School, said without a fence around the school there’s no way for her to protect female students from relatives who want to carry out FGM on them or marry them. Female genital mutilation (FGM) has been outlawed in Uganda since 2010, but aid workers and police say it's still being practiced by tribes in the northeast, including the Pokots, Sebei, Tepeth and Kadama.

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