Some 40 people have died in Sudan’s Darfur region in what health workers describe as the country’s worst cholera outbreak in years, according to Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
The humanitarian organisation said on Thursday that the vast western region, already ravaged by more than two years of fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has been hardest hit by the year-long outbreak.
“On top of an all-out war, people in Sudan are now experiencing the worst cholera outbreak the country has seen in years,” MSF said in a statement. “In the Darfur region alone, MSF teams treated over 2,300 patients and recorded 40 deaths in the past week.”
Nationwide, health authorities have recorded 2,470 cholera-related deaths between August 2024 and August 11, 2025, from a total of 99,700 suspected cases.
Cholera, an acute intestinal infection, is typically transmitted through food or water contaminated with bacteria, often originating from faecal matter. the disease.
