JOHANNESBURG – JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African health officials said Tuesday they are alarmed by the rise in deaths among men who have had botched traditional circumcisions, after 39 young men died ...

Traditional circumcision is practiced in more than one ethnic group in Uganda. This letter is about imbalu circumcision among the Bagisu community. On August 3, 2024, bagisu officially opened imbalu ...

The Bukusu have made headline news through the interracial marriage story that has refused to go away in a country where there are ‘red lines’ between tribes and races. The Bukusu are likely to ...

Farmers in Trans Nzoia are facing crop losses as short rains fail, with traditional circumcision rites blamed for disrupting ...

As circumcision period approaches in the month of August, Bungoma County residents are anxiously waiting to practice traditional male circumcision (the cut) where 2000 initiates are expected to be ...

Initiates pose in a field in Qunu, in the Eastern Cape December 14, 2013. Every year, thousands of youths leave their parents to spend weeks in the care of traditional leaders at an initiation school ...

Though transplants are almost always done under immense pressure and less than ideal circumstances, this one felt a little extreme to the four doctors involved. The difficulty started with the donor, ...

NEAR MOUNT ELGON, Uganda (AP) — The dancers shook their hips to the beat of drummers who led the way, anticipating the start of mass circumcision among the Bamasaaba people of Uganda’s mountainous ...

More than 100 traditional heads and government leaders gathered at Pietermaritzburg's Royal Show Grounds on Tuesday to discuss reviving the custom of male circumcision to prevent the spread of HIV.

The ritualized circumcision of thousands of boys, known as Imbalu, began Aug. 3 in a remote corner of Uganda and will continue until the end of 2024. NEAR MOUNT ELGON, Uganda — The dancers shook their ...