The current outbreak is centered in Kassala and Gedaref states.
For the second consecutive year Sudan is in the grip of a cholera outbreak that has left at least 28 people dead in the last month as rains fall in areas crammed with those fleeing the country’s 16-month-old war, officials said.
The country is dealing with a total of five concurrent disease outbreaks include dengue fever and measles. About 12 000 cases and more than 350 deaths were registered in the previous cholera wave between October 2023 and May 2024, health minister Haitham Mohamed Ibrahim said, adding that there had been no major outbreak in the nine years before the war.
Many people fleeing raids by the RSF shelter in crowded, makeshift displacement centres, where lavatories have overflowed as heavier-than-usual rains continue to fall. Cholera is transmitted from food and water contaminated with infected faeces and thrives in such conditions.
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