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Sulaymaniyah (233 words) |
 | Sulaymaniyah is the capital of the governorate with the same name, and part of the Kurdish Autonomous Region. |
| Sulaymaniyah is predominantly a Kurdish city, and has been a centre for Kurdish nationalism. |
| The economy of Sulaymaniyah is based upon the farming in the area, for which Sulaymaniyah is the trade and administrative centre. |
| Survey suggests widespread female circumcision in Kurdistan north Iraq (873 words) |
| SULAYMANIYAH, 6 January (IRIN) - A ground-breaking survey done by a German NGO of 40 villages in the rural Germian region of Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq has revealed that nearly 60 percent of the area's women have undergone circumcision (also known as female genital mutilation, FGM). |
| Long known to exist in Iraqi Kurdistan, particularly in certain rural areas of the southern Sulaymaniyah governorate, FGM has been the object of more than a decade of campaigning by local women's organisations, as well as NGOs such as WADI. |
| Some claimed as many as 40 percent of all women in Sulaymaniyah governorate were circumcised. |
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