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World Mental Health Day: "In Africa, Suicide Is a Political Pathology", According to the Anthropologist Perfect D. Akana

Summary by L'Humanité
In a continent with the highest suicide death rate in the world, according to WHO, the management of mental illnesses is still largely deficient. While World Mental Health Day opens on October 10th, Cameroonian anthropologist Perfect D. Akana sounds the burden against this institutional abandonment with pest effects.
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In a continent with the highest suicide death rate in the world, according to WHO, the management of mental illnesses is still largely deficient. While World Mental Health Day opens on October 10th, Cameroonian anthropologist Perfect D. Akana sounds the burden against this institutional abandonment with pest effects.

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L'Humanité broke the news on Friday, October 9, 2026.
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