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handle is hein.crs/govcixr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Researh Sevice South Sudan's Civil War: Nearly 400,000 Estimated Dead Updated September 28, 2018 South Sudan, which became the world's newest country when it split from Sudan in 2011, has been mired in civil war since December 2013. The war has had a devastating impact, displacing some 4.5 million people and fueling near-famine conditions. With over 7.1 i million people severely food insecure in 2018, it is among the world's worst humanitarian crises, and the U.N. humanitarian appeal for S1.4 billion in assistance is among the largest. South Sudan is one of the most dangerous environments for aid workers, with over 100 killed since the war began. The death toll from the conflict, however, has been based on guesswork, until the release of a new U.S.-funded study by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), commissioned by the U.S. Institute of Peace. Far from the often-used estimate, cited since 2014, ofat least 50,000 deaths, LSHTM experts assess that roughly 383,000 South Sudanese, including combatants, had died as a result of the war as of April 2018, based on a statistical analysis of mortality and other data. These are excess deaths, above and beyond what would have likely occurred absent war. The study found that approximately half of these deaths were due to violence; the rest are attributed to indirect factors (e.g., disruptions in health services, increased food insecurity). The report compares the rate of violent deaths to other conflicts and suggests that South Sudan's has been even more violent than has been reported. By comparison, studies suggested that less than 10% of the estimated deaths linked to conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo between 1998-2004 were directly caused by violence. The LSHTM experts indicate that their estimate of the death toll is conservative, and that factors such as lack of access to some insecure areas and a possible under-reporting of child deaths may have resulted in under-estimating. To put South Sudan's crisis-attributable mortality in context with other conflicts, studies have estimated almost 300,000 deaths in Darfur (2003-2008, during which time an estimated 20% of the deaths were violent), a region of Sudan with a slightly smaller population than South Sudan's. The death toll in Syria's civil war is debated, but some have placed it at over 500,000 since 2011 (Syria's population is almost twice that of South Sudan). Unlike in Syria, where U.N. agencies tried to track mortality in the early years of the war, neither the U.N., humanitarian groups, nor the government have systematically sought to count the dead in South Sudan. After the initial outbreak of violence, when civilians were killed in systematic attacks based on Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov IN10975 CRS }NStGHT Prepaed for Membeivs and Cornm ittees o4 Cor~qress ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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