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Why Africa must confront youth suicide now
Yet mental health services remain scarce, with fewer than one psychiatrist per half-million people across much of the continent, and schools and communities rarely have trained counsellors who can recognise early warning signs.
It is one of the most devastating sentences a parent can utter: “We never saw it coming.” Yet in Africa today, far too many families are forced to ask how a young life full of promise could end in such deafening silence.
Suicide has become one of the leading causes of death among young people globally, and Africa is carrying an outsized share of the burden.
