{UAH} Kenyan Clan Elders Are Profiting Off Female Genital Mutilation

Kenyan Clan Elders Are Profiting Off Female Genital Mutilation

Kenya's clan elders profit from the practice of female genital mutilation, complicating activist efforts to eradicate the practice in the west of the country, where "cutting" season has just begun.

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Anna Dubuis Women & Girls Hub

ANNA DUBUIS

KURIA COMMUNITY, Kenya – In Kenya's southwest corner, where a web of dirt roads weaves through green hills dotted with cattle and thatched huts, lies one of the country's poorest and most marginalized communities.

The Kuria are one of Kenya's lesser-known ethnic groups. Some 250,000 people quietly attempt to eke out a living in this remote region tucked away near the Tanzanian border.

But one of the tribe's most distinctive

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