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Guinean nurse Djénabou Bélla Diallo, in the backyard of her house, in Labé, in August 2023.
female genital mutilation

The Guinean nurse who stopped performing genital mutilation on girls: ‘In an environment where everyone does one thing, it is very difficult not to do the same’

Sara Aminiyan Llopis / Anna Enrech Calbet|Labé (Guinea) / Barcelona|

Djénabou Bélla Diallo, whose clitoris was cut as a child, is now a midwife and renounces the practice. But the custom is still very common in Guinea-Conakry, which has the world’s second highest population of mutilated females

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