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Girl abandoned outside Wajir mosque rejects kin seeking her back after 10 years

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“I want nothing to do with you,” a 10-year-old girl tells off kin who want her back, 10 years after she was dumped outside a mosque in Wajir County at 11 pm when she was eight months old.

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