400 ‘surgeons’ stop carrying out female genital mutilation

A WOMAN who mutilated the genitals of hundreds of young girls has revealed she has surrendered her tools as part of an Irish Aid campaign against the practice.

Rahel Mbalai is one 400 practitioners of female genital mutilation who have downed their implements in Tanzania.

Rahel estimates she carried out female circumcisions on more than 800 women over an eight-year period in the country.