Sudan Fact Sheet

• Sudan's civil war is the longest uninterrupted civil war in the world.
  The current conflict has continued non-stop for 17 years.
  
  
• More than 2 million Sudanese have died of war-related causes.
  The death toll in Sudan since 1983 is larger than the combined fatalities suffered in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Somalia, Sierra Leona and Indonesia. An estimate average of more than 300 Sudanese per day die of war-related causes.
  
  
• Sudan is producing more uprooted people than any other country in the world.
  An estimate 4 million Sudanese are internally displaced within their country. An additional 400,000 Sudanese have fled as refugees to neighboring countries.
  
  
• Famine killed tens of thousands of Sudanese during 1998.
  Violence and a government blockage of international aid programs triggered a famine two years ago. Pockets of serious malnutrition persist and could worsen.
  
  
• The Sudanese government regularly blocks humanitarian relief and bombs civilian and humanitarian centers.
  Sudanese officials continue to bar international aid programs from large areas of southern Sudan. Sudanese military planes bombed humanitarian relief and civilian centers three times in September, 20 times in August, 33 times in July, 63 times so far this year, at least 65 times in 1990, 40 times in 1998, and at least 22 times in 1997. Many additional bombings have gone unreported.
  
  
• Most of southern Sudan's 5 million people have absolutely no access to schools or reliable health care.
  Years of warfare, massive population displacement, and government neglect have devastated southern Sudan. It is one of the most impoverished places on earth.
  
  October 2000