Sudan: Cholera Is Spreading Widely in Khartoum

Sudan: Cholera is spreading widely in Khartoum

Sudan: Cholera is spreading widely in Khartoum MSF is urging donors, UN agencies, and NGOs to help urgently scale up efforts to curb the outbreak. Kate Rankin May 23 2025, 11:55am Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) currently supports seven cholera treatment units in Khartoum state and several oral rehydration points. Our cholera response teams are working in affected areas and we are running community-based water and sanita…

Sudanese authorities have announced that they have detected cholera in more than 2,300 people in the past three weeks, 90 percent of them in the capital Khartoum and the surrounding area, where drone attacks have cut off electricity and water supplies.

Cholera spikes in Khartoum after drone attacks cut power, water

DUBAI/CAIRO - More than 2,300 people have been diagnosed with cholera in Sudan over the past three weeks, authorities said, 90% of them in the capital and surrounding areas where drone attacks have cut off electricity and water supplies. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Africa CDC: Africa records over 2,400 cholera deaths in 2025

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA | Xinhua | Africa has recorded more than 2,400 deaths due to ongoing cholera outbreaks in different parts of the continent in 2025, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has said. During an online media briefing on Thursday night, Yap Boum II, deputy incident manager for mpox at the Africa CDC, said since the start of this year, the continent has recorded 115,513 cholera cases and 2,424 related …

From January to April, more than 157,000 cases and 2,148 deaths from the disease were reported in 26 countries; Africa leads the number of infections, followed by the eastern Mediterranean and southeast Asia; Angola is the fourth country with the most cases on the list. Source of original article: United Nations / Nações Unidas (news.un.org). […]