Sudan’s civil war has left at least 62,000 dead by our estimate − but the true figure could be far higher

By Sarah Elizabeth Scales, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Environmental, Occupational, and Agricultural Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Blake Erhardt-Ohren, DrPH Candidate, University of California, Berkeley
Debarati Guha Sapir, Professor of Public Health, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)
Khidir Dalouk, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University
Rohini J Haar, Faculty, Epidemiology Division, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley

The work of estimating conflict mortality is difficult. But that doesn’t make this grim exercise, nor accounting for the broader effects of conflict, any less critical.

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