Cholera Outbreak in Sudan Claims Hundreds of Lives Amid Health Crisis
An unprecedented cholera outbreak sweeping across Sudan’s Darfur region has killed 454 people since June, with 25 deaths recorded in just 48 hours, a group representing displaced people reported on Monday.
The General Coordination for Displaced Persons and Refugee Camps confirmed that the epidemic has infected 11,733 people to date. Spokesman Adam Regal noted that Tawila town, near El Fasher in North Darfur, remains the hardest-hit area, with more than 5,400 cases and nearly 80 deaths.
The outbreak is spreading rapidly into Jebel Marra, Zalingei, and Nyala, with local clinics overwhelmed. Video footage from isolation centers in Jildo shows patients receiving IV fluids while lying on bare floors due to a lack of beds and medical equipment.
Regal warned that the disease is spreading “at an unprecedented rate” amid severe shortages of medicines, intravenous solutions, and healthcare staff. Relief operations are further complicated by surging malaria cases, high levels of child malnutrition, and widespread hunger.
Local volunteers, humanitarian agencies, and health authorities are intensifying efforts to slow the outbreak, but they face growing challenges. Regal appealed to the World Health Organization and international relief agencies to step up their response, stressing that Sudan is facing a humanitarian disaster fueled by war, famine, and epidemic disease.
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