"Independence came following a decades-long war of secession and, in January 2011, a referendum in which 99 percent of the largely Christian population voted for independence from Muslim Sudan. Peace, though, didn't last long and a new civil war broke out in December 2013. Over 10,000 people are thought to have lost their lives in the violence since then. A further 1.3 million have been displaced, according to United Nations estimates, and 4 million face starvation."