Nipping Delicate Flowers in the Bud

 

Asiya Harbu, 45 a traditional circumciser from Sabwe Kebele ward in Awash, AfarOver the past 10 years, hundreds of little girls have passed through the heavily veined hands of Asiya Harbu. Her fingers are long and slender, the nails short, but while a woman’s hands are often gentle and reassuring, a channel of love and nurture, hers have brought unspeakable pain and gross disfigurement to her fragile charges. 

 

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Finally, a Place to Call Home

The ‘newborns’ unit at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi is alive with the lusty cry of babies. At the centre of the room, a group of mothers wash their new arrivals, handling them with great tenderness and soothing them with gentle voices.

 

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Mary is 75 years old and lives in a remote community in Wadufana in Luwero district in central Uganda. The Luwero triangle, an area of Uganda to the north of the capital, Kampala, is renowned for conflict.

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