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Drought: Families marrying off their girls to replenish livestock

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One of the victims interviewed by The Standard. [Francis Kariuki, Standard]

Mary was barely seven years old when she was subjected to Female Genital Mutation (FGM). "It was very painful. I was afraid and I thought I would die," she recalls.

Now, seven years later, the Form Two student in Marsabit town is traumatised with the experience still fresh in her mind. "If I were in a position to make a decision, I wouldn't have been cut," she says.

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