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ah, am talk my name. i'm an online journalist. i am married and have a 4 year old daughter. lou, i grew up in sweden, but ameritron by origin. oh, it was while making a web to comment to fall to 0. about female genital mutilation. that i realize how deeply rooted it is in many cultures, including my own, ah,

family and friends who have been through it. it's not something you talk about as a child. i attended the close relatives gathering after she was a it was then that i wanted have i been cut to my relief? my mother told me that she chose not to me. ah. when i think about the severe health risks involved in f t m, i can't help but wonder, ah, why does this practice continue in so many countries? ah, and what would it take for it to stop the thing about him? although been eligible though, and how do some managed change on health attitudes towards cutting it was still preserving their own culture. hou, homes, you know, and then that i'm passing questions like whether my mother has been cut schema. i've never asked how do you come on? oh,

i'm determined to find out more about the different reasons why f t m continues and to understand better what's needed to end it. mm hm. i've come to somali lan, because together with the rest of somali, it has the highest rate of female genital mutilation in the world. f, she m is bound in most countries, but here it's still legal. in somali land children are mostly caught between the ages of 6 and 8. i've come to the outskirts of agatha the capital to meet the traditional cutter pi . oh no one has been cutting girls for over 40 years. took it out on $25.00

a day. a topeka how many girls have you got? oh cool, look a lot and what type of cuts have you performed on the delta? can i'm going in father will. ah, why tie lake? yeah, let's leah horse hill. good n or thought i caught ye how car and lisco till you? good near chorus. those shall dumbbell. antonia said that our cilla would live for only i got your back on only now q so low. why entire missy? senator was ha ha! i'm a little wilson tag hiscock, i knew to shows me the most common cotton. somebody land the chorus, the most severe fellow nick, one. what is this for? how, how is my walk? i shall and what i wanna say, but in the glitter ah,

castle was all tell you don't you the knife? my m. okay. no acid shalaya paddle hotel. yeah. mm hm. okay, hold on the walk on his head a little. what else to tell us? thought i yes. okay. oh, to thread florida can so they can. so had they can you show me how do you determine how big the whole should be that you live it. this is our big, the opening of ha, only with. well, good luck was and you're supposed to urinate from this and when you're a teenager, mr. asian, go through this whole now about over 90 percent of girls and somali land

a cut by traditional cotton. unlike nora most have no medical training more skill than women here have had the for wanted cut. and i want to know the consequences alike of alabama salaam. anna, be the senior midwife at the local hospital should grow less if you have a very beautiful out from the law. thank you very much. that she was born in somalia with moved to sweden are the result of the civil war. lighten light and i and i decided to come back to move something for most people because i more needed here. how have you been involved in the fight against them? or if jim cases which we help is those who have 5 broad fire brody said tumor, which is which for mister collecting blood, the blood cannot. if the species very small, the minister shall cannot go out all every month when the girl gets the

administration. there will be something left in the youth to us. so dis who form thomas? this becomes bigger. people will assume this girl she has in louisville. may be in the hottest stomach. so the doctor takes out this and the girl will be okay. anna pelp from the megan maternity hospital in ocoee sharma in mental help hi sand thunderbird on my son. nathan was bryson what are her seeing who said that was over 2 days a week and a counselors carry out educational outreach work in the community. so low level parcel. hello. hello. hello, is there another little boy about color had she had a family so a lot in jani or from they had asked him, are you louis miller, mccann ha ha ha. say live in is chrissy. this odami, we're a good in our interval. am i shot la?

they have a less of a lot of my mind like i had, i'd rather there. how had i knew i met should have died in which i got of an role. but what i learned is only the way now cinnapool. so my and i love it was the so doing a a chateau wants to discuss her house worries with the counselors. she's 18 and pregnant with her 1st child. she's had the ferronte cut, one ali calling. i know to mean should have gotten into her doing to, to wanna wiley college and then american grew sony palsky i had done while it lasted them. okay. a little came on. i saw for him also that i'll also handle that . they deeper the mac, almost hard to hire the little media malackle calling caution grabbing. this will

be my number's coming up. come on and what are you? good. corkalon awhile, hammering, but they're a lot lower color canada our that done up our skinny so i will get that on by mitchell and kate mckayla. google. so what i handle got that on bubble cuz i didn't have li are all have any number. we're had alena moved the name of the local office where they had that in but on our multi cadillac pumped along over have her come to the civil. how will her new to the in north america. but then they go to hello hegan go. it had been a tall name there. mchugh, our god will molly? ah, well, i am. yes sir. oh, though fiano had a young boy in a one. ha, ha, ha, ha ha. in a demo kelly. and anyway, why you know, why talent on medicaid grew to south on lot of to blake in some local. then kathy mccoy, her research, had the word orca uptime at all. rather allow hannah to have la. but honestly,

their little group had done a day, lily kitty, well quibbling talk, connect on tarka mcguire holiday. i been an annual not lily kitty way over there and couldn't talk a little hasn't got absolutely our ha, ha, ha, dig for how curly be so long with richard and i be bye. hey, sam. charlotte, i have a hold of the other line with them. um no, so bought gotten a mobile so why do you think somali land have the highest percentage when it comes to f g m globally? it takes time to lift the cost of grandmother. and mother is these still all on with the switch heading and of gym, especially the grandmother said very vertical concert. they are, there will, they will not leave it. there was a lady who had 3 girls,

she came to me at the hospital. i told her, go back to the horn and see i did over ation. she is very clever disk it on mother who. when the guests had gone to the toilet, talantino, she goes after them. she listens the loss of there and urine. oh because when the girl is circumcised it no, there's no nice wood there with her urine because it is like a drug addict or she cried. she said, or my daughter again, saddle again, you will need to like a boyce what you did. you did nothing. do you think that eventually people will abandon the sir eventually, but didn't take time? ah, i watched its young people at a wedding reception. i wonder how many of the men would be willing to marian uncut

woman in the future. oh. foreseen, luke, who generally posted an antique g a message of social media. i was curious to know why i did the facebook state of where you said some men believe f g m reduces a woman's sexual desire. they say this increases her appeal. what made you write this? i want to talk because it's problem thought of our callous and dishonesty. dow yeoman flight of the goddess. or you might know that right when you get my and you want to my from one with cup to runker and cut. okay. are you married? no, you want to be married. someone was cut on cup on huddle, who yearly,

mca mitchell, with an old target. somehow did duck monkey and his brother, kennesaw juliessa deca high level lima dunn, my car. my hot in la david will you or later other one also going to buy them or talk about the comic i saw that i in total over time, which i am a woman and i come from a culture that also practices if i'm not cut and i know i the woman, based on what other woman have told me, that if there is no, there is no good in it. if they tell you this is hurting us, this is literally killing us, and we need to stop with you. then listen hard to lowball zoom callisom ill. her mccourt did. doesn't camilla with bermuda 0 her to this all in total or sagacity. and me or the michael hello, julia boucher, the duncan, shirley i'm surprised that a young man should feel so strongly about holding on to this tradition. when so

harmful, if effigy i, mister end, changing men's attitudes will be sensual weight did, and they had not done inverted to hospital collect detailed information on trends in female cutting mckinley now since 2002 all and to needs of patients are often what kind of cuts have had, and if they intend to cut their daughters in, i did wish i had, they were kind of in a tongue of little listening. this is rare and to see a woman who is a i will lead due to my daughter in 2002, i think 97 percent of female patient had undergone the fair when he cut and most intended the same for their daughters. for what a part, but that has changed

a hears in both went into type and the return to add, having now into one touch to which they call sooner. but if it ever is getting cut sim time one is the one that they said live at the tip, but tied to it, they can have half of cametrius. we know all cuts doesn't have any benefit from a girl with her father, mom and cabin doctor shapiro. introduces me to a friend who is at the hospital on a postnatal visit. she gave birth quarter days ago. oh, so i interesting business and soccer. so she cadon is a midwife, a know the harmful effects of for only cutting from personal experience. i was several years old at home, but i say at that time if he had pain when he wanted to you relate,

i can i'm currently you can come in my to leticia, come in, you are a coward. why? how your car you talk claim the festival. the lady i feeling that when am 16 years the minutes, tuition 2nd room. i feed in pay load of pain pet fee tank as a courtesy for say for the f 2, a 2nd communication. i feel if i lie feeling that tuck on vacation when i'm married, i think they lost them for katie and never forget that to me was say create a faded p. did you feel any resentment towards your mother and her grandmother? yeah, but my mother, she hadn't location ah,

as i am leaving somebody land, i feel privileged to have met a woman who shared the stories with me. but i'm overcome with emotion as i relies virtually every woman here have been coughing. and was, it actually means i've always known about the numbers and the facts and figures. but when you come face to face to woman who has gone through it, it seems like the woman who after indoors this and the children were after indoors . if you go through cycles of pain and for what for what has happened to so many women and girls like my mom? i'm so happy that she i don't know why she didn't cut off, but i'm so grateful. because my life would have been so much different because it feels like oh,

would have gone through the pay to go through without. and then not to be able to do something that to the god given thing to peak. you can't p. and then you commence duration. and then when you have to have sex, you don't enjoy it and it's like painful. and then you have to give and then it just continue. i'm so grateful that i didn't go through that. and when i met this woman who have to go through it, ah ah, i've come to kenya to find out more about

a totally different culture or over 40 stripes here with diverse cultures and traditions. the majority don't practice the cuts at all. a to several, including the messiah cutting has been a centuries old tradition until it is empty. to day. i'm meeting 28 year old, nicely getty nice of managed to totally eradicate f t. m. in her village of no. my younger. oh fun. good. traditionally for them, sy cutting the rite of passage, marking the transition from girlhood to womanhood. usually between the ages of mine and 14, the ritual in balsam was severe type of cutting. last

a few guns in his release because of the competition. i used to see gas even if they're trying to be strong, but you can see that they're feeling a lot of b as a bleeding. who saw that in this community? nice was the only gun village who refused to be cut. all of my classmates were from this community, all of them of and i got a conversation and they didn't, they were not able to coordinate the education. they have to find a husband for you after a conversation. so right now, almost all of them have 345 children, and about i jumbo. well, what's your name? my name is sloan. oh, what a beautiful name. have they been the 2nd 5? no, they haven't been fuck. i'm faced. how do you feel about not being cut with the lender? you're lucky. oh, so what would you like to do any growth agenda? dana?

good luck. ok. thank you. lauren. as a result of nice is determination to and if she m no young girl had been katya since 2012 the messiah and a patriarchal city through sal. and i 1st had to persuade the young warriors called miranda to help and the practice. recruiting douglas early the lead that of them rounds. it was the beginning, the word. where did you do nice to make them change their opinion of other jam douglas? was there 1st puzzled to accept my walk? the resistance was the air from all over, but then again, i had another trick because when they go to them, i'll go with someone like that. bless oil made sure that he talks it before i talk . so what did he do to persuade them parents in the community? it was very hard for us to continue the boys because they say that they cannot

marry jobs because even job is not to come save. she's not a woman. then if we give an example of some of the that we have seen in the community, they say it's true and they forget it. they think it took more than 5 years for them just to accept. and now we decided to come up with a candidate. we came up with a buffet if the 10 gal from this community and we want them to upgrade to become a woman. we bless them. then we looked at the same cows we celebrated together, but we didn't cut. so that's what we've come up with. douglas bring some of his fellow moran to let him know. yeah, we a mix of moderate moran ok and much more and do you know what actually happens when a girl is cut? you'll get along able to go, you know, you know,

salary and i really love it when you love it. and when i get there, i don't know. now i'm getting more and associated with your mood. welcome at. i don't know when you, when you don't want a nice show some rounds, a graphic video of a 2 year old girl being cut with a knife. larry anna. and he was the one who did you think that was done on the land when they're doing this? do you have a daughter, a, how would you feel if someone said she needed to be got

a lovely, a lot going? so i think it was one of the possible to who've been using when we addressing them on the issues of female genital mutilation. and there was another very persuasive incentive for the young warriors when we see it, as moran, as we talk and talk about sex, you see most of the more and most of the men, d, c. they sleep, we come to god. she's very sweet in sex. no, that's what also convince most of them what honest to say. we don't need the 2nd thing. yeah. for a meeting . the messiah in pneumonia gives me hope. if one woman can change attitudes in one village, perhaps it's time to possible to change and tire countries. ah,

dreams jones and entertainment await the people to rise above the violence around them. so it's my role to give these girls a different idea that they can leave the wards of this community. 3 short films show how performance creates a home and family, and gives hope and opportunity. ah, a j. select on al jazeera a celebration with angela al jazeera was gaines way insights into the diverse culture of salami. i think to poland, 2 different couples in bucking life together. t wedding to come monday style announces in i've been reading all of latin america for most of my career,

but no country is alike. and it's my job to shed light on how and why lou mclaughlin, though how the dumpster is here on al jazeera and south africa says it will either korean virus restrictions off to infections dropped by almost 30 percent bostwick. the government believes that it's past the peak of the army from barrett for me to mila has more from cape town, poll, indications are that south africa has passed the peak of its force wave, which appeared to have started toward the end of november early december. now they've seen a 30 percent decrease in infections and that was the week leading up to christmas and compared to the week before. that's.