After a slew of likely contenders such as heart disease, anemia, thyroid disease, depression or a sleep disorder are ruled out, getting to the source of fatigue gets murky. Among the many next-tier suspects is the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV).
Indeed, 2.4 million of those at risk of famine were in southern Sudan, the main arena of the war. Southern Sudan occupies almost one third of the territory of Sudan, which at 2.5 million square kilometers is the largest country in Africa.
Sudan's civil war has been characterised by an incremental ferocity that has left untouched practically no one in southern Sudan, it went on. The government had systematically blocked food supplies to the south, attacked villages and driven large groups of people to areas where they could not survive, it said.