South Sudan - "The Whole Country Is Traumatised"

21 January 2019

Juba — Decades of war left almost half the population with post-traumatic stress symptoms and little mental health care

It has been more than a year since government soldiers attacked Mary Poni's house in the South Sudanese town of Yei. They raped her elder sister and decapitated her father - part of a harrowing string of events that would eventually push her to attempt suicide, twice.

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