Sudan has become the largest producer of refugees on the African continent,
with some 460,000 Sudanese forced to flee to neighboring countries in 2000.
More than 2 million people in south and central Sudan have died in the past 18
years as a result of Sudan's civil war, and more than 4 million have become internally
displaced.
In 2000, the Sudan government launched more than 160 government bomb attacks on
its citizens, hospitals, and humanitarian sites - a total of once every three days,
sometimes more.
Twelve Sudanese die every hour from war-related causes.
One out of every eight uprooted people on our planet is Sudanese.
Sudan's civil war is the longest ongoing civil war in the world.
This massive loss of life surpasses the civilian death toll in any war since
World War II.
At least one out of every five southern Sudanese has died because of the 18-year
civil war.
More than one-third of all uprooted people on the African continent is Sudanese.
More than 18% of southern Sudan's population has been displaced at least once,
and often repeatedly, since 1983.
There were an estimated 70,000 war-related deaths in the war-produced famine
of 1998.
Slave raids are occurring on a regular basis in parts of the South.
