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Over 40 Dead in Sudan Cholera Outbreak, Says MSF
Nearly 100,000 suspected cholera cases and over 2,470 deaths are linked to war-driven displacement and poor sanitation, Doctors Without Borders reports in Sudan's Darfur and Blue Nile regions.
- On August 14, 2025, Doctors Without Borders warns that Sudan faces its 'worst cholera outbreak in years,' with nearly 100,000 suspected cases and over 2,470 deaths since last year.
- Amid ongoing fighting in Darfur and beyond, displacement is worsening cholera spread, as conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and RSF since April 2023 has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions, spreading disease across borders.
- In North Darfur’s Tawila, a 130-bed cholera treatment centre accommodated 400 patients early August, MSF reports, highlighting severe strain on health facilities.
- Urgent calls for water and sanitation improvements accompany vaccine campaign demands, says MSF head of mission Tuna Turkmen in Sudan.
- Heavy rains have contaminated water sources and damaged sewage systems, and the outbreak is spreading to Chad and South Sudan, increasing cross-border risks.
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Sudan: UN Warns of Famine As Darfur Union UK Accuses RSF of 'Genocidal Siege'
New York / London / El Fasher / Zamzam Camp / Abu -- The United Nations has warned of famine, mass killings, and a fast-spreading cholera outbreak in Sudan, saying civilians face "a deepening crisis". The warning came as the Darfur Union in the United Kingdom accused the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied factions of committing "genocide" in El Fasher, North Darfur, during what it called their 227th failed attempt to seize the ci…
At least 40 people died in a week in Darfur, in western Sudan, in the worst cholera outbreak in this war-torn African country. According to the organization, the western Darfur region, hit by the war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (FAR), is the most affected by the outbreak in the last year. “In addition to a total war, the people of Sudan are now suffering the worst cholera outbreak that the country has expe…
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AlKhaleej TodayCholera kills at least 40 in Darfur as Sudan battles worst outbreak in years
TAWILA (Sudan), Aug 15 — Cholera has claimed at least 40 lives in Sudan’s Darfur region over the last week as the country weathers its worst outbreak of in years, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Thursday.At a cholera isolation tent at a Sudanese displacement camp, an AFP journalist saw women and a young girl receiving intravenous fluids, while exhausted and weak patients sprawled on camp beds.Citing rising cases of cholera which “exacerbat…
Sudan is ravaged after two years of war between the regular army and the FSR paramilitaries. And to the tens of thousands of deaths, millions of displaced persons and malnutrition, comes a serious cholera epidemic. In the Darfur region, at least 40 people with the disease have died in just one week. An increasingly alarming situation, to the point of having the European Union react, which calls on all parties to the conflict to let humanitarian …
The water's not safe to drink in much of war-torn Sudan. But people have no choice
More than two years of civil war in Sudan have forced hundreds of thousands into crowded camps, where heavy rain and a lack of hygiene supplies have fostered the perfect storm for cholera to spread.
In Sudan, the most deadly cholera outbreak has occurred in years. In the western region of Darfur, at least 40 people died within a week, according to doctors without borders.
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