"Some of them start crying as soon as they start drawing."

How sketch therapy for Central Africa's war-torn children is helping them heal.

Working with hundreds of children, psychologist Mamie Nouria Meniko tries to slowly get them to express what they are feeling -- through drawing. "We can't wipe anything out," she said. "What we try to do is to help them live with the trauma."

"I have to draw to get the images out of my head and be able to sleep," one 12-year-old boy told AFP.

Photographs and video by Florent Vergnes.

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In Central African Republic, traumatised children draw for therapy

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