A cholera outbreak in Sudan has k!lled 120 people, with another 1,102 suspected cases since May in isolated war zones, the World Health Organization said today
More than three years of war between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have decimated the country’s healthcare system.
This is Sudan’s third wave of cholera in as many years, and began only two months after the last outbreak was declared over in March.
Between July 2024 and March 2026, over 124,400 people were infected and 3,500 k!lled during the last wave, according to government figures.
Endemic to the northeast African country, cholera used to come “in a cyclic manner every three years”, the WHO’s Sudan chief Dr Shible Sahbani told reporters.
But now the country faces near-continuous outbreaks “due to the conflict, constraints in access and limited supplies,” he said.
Sudan’s rainy season is set to surge in the coming weeks, during which cholera cases balloon as millions lack access to clean water and the rains further impede access.
The Sudanese government declared the latest outbreak this week in the flashpoint West Kordofan state, the dividing line between army and paramilitary zones of control.
AFP
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