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  Moran Protecting His Community from Harmful Cultural Practices

  Whether they find their spouse through arranged marriage like their parents, or on their own, morans (warriors) in the Samburu community are intransigent about one criterion for their future bride: she needs to be “cut”. The cut, also known as Female Genital Mutilation and Cutting (FGM/C), is a highly prevalent cultural practice within the Samburu, a nomadic pastoralist group living in Northern Kenya, with prevalence rate more than four times higher than the national average (90%1 compared to 21%). These clans consider FGM/C a crucial rite of passage to womanhood and have

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  I No Longer Cut Girls: How a Circumciser Changed Her Mind About FGM/C

  Doko Gutu, 54, is a former traditional circumciser from the Gabbra Community living in Maikona, Marsabit County, Northern Kenya. For more than 30 years, she performed female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/C) on girls as young as seven. That was her only source of income, earning her $10 per girl, which was crucial for her survival in a region where the poverty rate is at 42.2%1. Since the practice has been outlawed in Kenya in 2011, Marsabit traditional circumcisers hide to avoid jail but the impact of their work is undisputable: 81% of the women aged 15–49 in the area have been cut by

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