Vanguard
In Nigeria, under a colonial-era law still enforced today, attempting suicide is a crime, not a crisis. Survivors are dragged from hospital beds to police stations, charged, prosecuted, and sometimes imprisoned. Their suffering is met with threats, rather than therapy, deepening their trauma. Every 33 minutes, another Nigerian dies by suicide, a figure equivalent to 16,000 lives a year, each one a story cut short, a future erased, a cry that went unheard.