Africa: UN agency seeks to curb suicide

With nearly 1 million people dying from suicide every year, more than from all homicides and wars combined, the United Nations health agency has called for concerted global action to curb what it termed "a huge but largely preventable public health problem." "Suicide is a tragic global public health problem," World Health Organization (WHO) Assistant-Director General for Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health Catherine Le Galès-Camus said ahead of World Suicide Prevention Day being marked on Friday.