![Guinean nurse Djénabou Bélla Diallo, in the backyard of her house, in Labé, in August 2023.](https://imagenes.elpais.com/resizer/v2/L3UHE3JAM5EOFJRUSLHEOUCUJI.jpg?auth=cf985356374d6d45eb2465e2cf26d392c01e1e39f341f7e674e4b88580ad0f5f&width=414&height=233&focal=3607%2C1322)
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