Maghagha

Maghagha is a city in Egypt on the west bank of the Nile and the northernmost city in the Minya Governorate. Its old names were Nimoui, from the Coptic word for islands, and Gazirat al-Hagar, meaning stone islands. In May 1963 the ferry boat Adel capsized here, killing 206 people. In June 2007 an eleven-year-old schoolgirl, Budour Ahmed Shaker, died at a private clinic in Maghagha after an excessive dose of anesthesia while undergoing female genital cutting, which sparked widespread protests and prompted the Egyptian government to outlaw the practice by closing a legal loophole that had allowed it for documented health reasons.