South Sudan

With a population of around eight million, South Sudan became independent in July 2011 following a referendum after decades of conflict in which more than two million people are believed to have died and in which tens of thousands of women and children were reported to have been taken into slavery. 

The new state immediately experienced inter-ethnic violence and famine. Violence evolved into full-scale civil war at the end of 2013. A 2021 US State Department report cited a local NGO, Remembering the Ones We Lost, which had documented the names of 13,000 persons missing since 2013. 

 

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