In South Sudan, illness is as deadly as war

JUBA – By the time he was brought into the remote clinic in north-eastern South Sudan, two-year-old Nyachoat was already convulsing from malaria attacking his brain.In South Sudan mind-bending horrors abound of war, ethnic violence, rape, hunger and displacement.

A study by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine last year showed almost 400,000 people had died as a result of South Sudan's nearly six-year war. In the surrounding villages, women are hard at work mudding their huts and re-thatching the roof in anticipation of the rains to come within weeks.

However, the country is also the most dangerous for humanitarian workers with around 100 killed over the past five years, according to United Nations figures. Dozens of organisations have been forced to pull out of areas they served due to the conflict.

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