How are those who fled Somalia’s civil war coping with their trauma?
Bristol’s Somali community have been speaking for the first time about how PTSD and trauma has impacted their lives
We hear a lot in the news about the treacherous journeys people take to escape conflict, violence, poverty and political instability. Thousands have drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean sea from the coasts of Libya and Tunisia.
Many fleeing countries on the African continent, travel through several countries to get to the Sahara desert in order to reach the coast. It’s a route which has been described as being fraught with danger, some estimate it costs even more lives than crossing the Mediterranean Sea.
The cost for taking these risky journeys is huge and for those who survive and make it to Europe, there’s also the cost to their mental health.
Africa Daily's Alan Kasujja has been speaking to the Â鶹ԼÅÄ's Osob Elmi about her interviews with people who left Somalia in the years after the country’s brutal civil war.
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