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A Pokot girl covered in animal skins walks to a place where she will rest after having been circumcised, about 80 kilometres from the town of Marigat in Baringo County, Kenya, October 17, 2014. The ceremony starts the evening before the girls get circumcised and involves women and elders of the community gathering together, singing and dancing through out the night in encouragement to the girls who together wait inside a hut for first light. The traditional practice of circumcision within the Pokot is a right of passage that marks the transition to womanhood and a requirement to marriage within the community. Picture taken on October 17, 2014 REUTERS/Siegfried Modola (KENYA)

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A Pokot girl covered in animal skins walks to a place where she will rest after having been circumcised, about 80 kilometres from the town of Marigat in Baringo County, Kenya, October 17, 2014. The ceremony starts the evening before the girls get circumcised and involves women and elders of the community gathering together, singing and dancing through out the night in encouragement to the girls who together wait inside a hut for first light. The traditional practice of circumcision within the Pokot is a right of passage that marks the transition to womanhood and a requirement to marriage within the community. Picture taken on October 17, 2014 REUTERS/Siegfried Modola (KENYA)