‘I saw so much killing’: the mental health crisis of South Sudan refugees

Therapy is helping some of the thousands forced over the border to Uganda to cope, but funding shortfalls mean resources are becoming scarcer

As darkness fell, Rebecca closed the door to her makeshift home. The day was over.

The 29-year-old, who had been uprooted from South Sudan to a north Ugandan refugee settlement, sat on the bed where her four children slept and, at around 10pm, tried to take her own life. By then I didn't care about anything - not myself, not even my kids. The pain was too extreme," she says. Her children awoke and their cries brought help from neighbours.