Nearly 100 people have died of cholera in two weeks since the waterborne disease outbreak began in Sudan’s White Nile State.
As of the current data, of the admitted cholera patients who died, 18 of them were children, and five were no older than 5. Fiver others were no older than 9, confirmed the MSF emergency coordinator for Sudan,
Nearly 100 people died of cholera in two weeks since the waterborne disease outbreak began in Sudan's White Nile State, an international aid group said. Doctors Without Borders — also known as Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF — said Thursday that 2,700 people have contracted the disease since Feb. 20, including 92 people who died.
Sudan's White Nile State has been witnessing attacks by the RSF, the most notable of which was the assault on villages around the al-Gitaina area, leading to the deaths of 433 civilians, according to a government report on Feb. 18.
At least 70 people have died from cholera and more than 2,200 have been infected in southern Sudan over the past week, Save the Children said Thursday, citing health ministry data.
Sudan's miliary says it has broken a paramilitary group's yearlong siege of the crucial city of Obeid, restoring access to a strategic area in the south-central region and strengthening crucial supply routes in their nearly two years of war.
The grassroots effort was feeding civilians, but 500 soup kitchens shut down when aid ceased, an activist writes.
The death toll from a Sudanese military aircraft crash in the city of Omdurman increased to at least 46 people, including women and children, officials said Wednesday, one of the deadliest plane crashes in the northeastern African nation in the past two decades.
The fighting, which wrecked the capital, Khartoum, and other urban areas has ... concerns about a potential split of the country. Cholera has spread to Rabak, the provincial capital of White ...