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UGANDA: Alice: “I saw my friend being beheaded and his body cut up”

africa » uganda
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=81486
Saturday, November 22, 2008
GULU Monday, November 17, 2008 (IRIN) - Children abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) during its decades-long insurgency in the north have to...
alice, lords, army lra, its decades, insurgency, trauma, psychological scars, rescue
DRC: Rape crisis set to worsen...

DRC: Rape crisis set to worsen amid Kivu chaos

africa » dem rep congo » north kivu
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Soaring insecurity in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has raised fears of a new wave of sexual violence in a region termed “the worst place in...
rape, abuse, violence, sexual violence, trauma
LIBERIA: Mental health problem...

LIBERIA: Mental health problems breed violence

africa » liberia » monrovia
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Liberia’s only mental health specialist says the country is experiencing an increase in post-traumatic stress disorders because the country’s two...
mental health, trauma, stress, conflict
SIERRA LEONE: Violent memories...

SIERRA LEONE: Violent memories still haunt war orphans

africa » sierra leone » koindu
Thursday, August 07, 2008
Theresa, a vivacious 16-year-old girl, last saw her parents when they were dragged away from her in a crush of people fleeing into neighbouring...
trauma, war, violence
UGANDA: Appeal for help for LR...

UGANDA: Appeal for help for LRA victims, ex-rebels

africa » uganda » gulu
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Impoverished victims of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and former rebels being reintegrated into the community in northern Uganda need urgent...
rebels, victims, trauma
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-CAMER...

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-CAMEROON: CAR refugees in Cameroon diseased, malnourished, lack water

africa » cameroon » yaounde
IRIN
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Most of the 45,000 Central African Republic (CAR) refugees living in eastern Cameroon are diseased, malnourished and generally in bad health,...
refuees, camp, malnutrition, trauma
UGANDA: Nightmares spoil the d...

UGANDA: Nightmares spoil the dreams of returnees

africa » uganda » gulu
IRIN
Saturday, December 01, 2007
The nightmares have begun again for Viola Lakwac. Ever since she left a camp for displaced people to move closer to her land in northern Uganda, she...
refugees, trauma, camp

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