The number of people killed in a decade of war in the Democratic Republic of Congo may be half of the accepted toll of 5.4 million, a study has suggested.
The Canada-based Human Security Report Project says the figure makes too many assumptions about how many deaths were caused by the war.
The researchers say many of the deaths between 1998 and 2008 would have occurred without conflict.
The figure was used to justify ramping up the UN presence in the country.
The BBC's East Africa correspondent Peter Greste says the initial figures shocked the world into action.
A formal peace accord ended a war that had involved Angola, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Uganda and Rwanda in December 2002, but unrest has continued in the volatile east of the country. - bbc news
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