Egypt: Outrage over girl's death sparks circumcision ban

Health chiefs and religious authorities in Egypt have banned female circumcision after outrage following the death of a 12-year-old girl.

Badour Shaker died while undergoing the procedure in an illegal clinic in the southern town of Maghagh earlier this month. Her mother, Zeniab Abdel Ghani, told the Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper that she paid about 50 Egyptian pounds (€6.70) to a woman doctor to carry it out.