JUBA, South Sudan — South Sudan’s civil war has caused nearly 400,000 “excess deaths” since fighting erupted in late 2013, a new report funded by the U.S. State Department said Wednesday after years of uncertainty. The report by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine estimates that “violent injuries” caused about half of those 382,900 deaths. Counting the dead in the civil war is difficult as so much occurs in remote locations, Ryan said. The striking new estimate comes weeks after the warring sides signed what the government called a “final final” peace deal. “You can’t collect the data.”South Sudan’s civil war also has sent more than 2 million people fleeing in Africa’s largest refugee crisis since the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Source: National Post September 26, 2018 11:37 UTC