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What can be done to help someone who may be suicidal?

Thursday, March 19, 2009

The people who talk about suicide don't do it." Studies have found that more than 75% of all completed suicides did things in the few weeks...

Kei Ripper survivors tell of terrifying ordeal All three boys say the memories stop them sleeping

http://www.dispatch.co.za/article.aspx?id=272942

Friday, November 21, 2008

ONE of the young survivors of the Kei Rippers first attack says he can still hear the screams of his friend as the killers knife tore into the...

RWANDA: Reconciliation still a major challenge

IRIN http://www.irinnews.org

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Brigitte Mukandoli was a schoolgirl when a group of militias manning a roadblock near her village of Bishenyi, close to the Rwandan capital, Kigali,...

RWANDA: Protect genocide survivors, authorities urged

IRIN http://www.irinnews.org

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

As Rwanda marks the International Day of Reflection on the Genocide on 8 April, the authorities are being called upon to provide better protection...

CAR: Struggling to undo the damage of sexual violence

IRIN

Wednesday, April 02, 2008

The Monam group of rape survivors in the northern town of Bossangoa in the Central African Republic (CAR) does what it can to keep going, but morale...

Over 15% of women and girls are subjected to sexual violence in the Central African Republic’s crisis zones

OCHA

Monday, March 31, 2008

Several thousands of women and young girls have endured rape and other sexual violence in the conflict-torn north of the Central African Republic...

RWANDA: Genocide survivors ready to forgive but not to forget

IRIN

Friday, September 21, 2007

On their way to an afternoon excursion to Lake Gwesero, outside the Rwandan capital, Kigali, members of the Nshuti social club, set up just three...

NIGERIA: Flooding, rainstorms force people from homes in the north

IRIN

Monday, September 03, 2007

Flooding and rainstorms in two northern Nigerian states have left thousands more people displaced and killed many livestock, local officials said. ...