Sudan’s Health Ministry announced on Tuesday that 1,575 new cholera cases and 22 deaths were recorded nationwide over the past week.
Officials said the outbreak, declared in August 2024, has now reached 101,450 cases, including 2,515 deaths, spanning all 18 states.
The relentless epidemic has deepened fears across Sudan, where collapsing infrastructure and strained hospitals struggle to contain a disease that thrives in chaos.
Cholera, spread through contaminated water, has become another silent killer in a nation already ravaged by an unforgiving civil war.
Since April 2023, the General Abdel Fattah al Burhan’s army and the Rapid Support Forces have waged a brutal conflict that shows no end.
The United Nations and local authorities report more than 20,000 dead and 14 million displaced, a human tide scattered across fractured lands.
Research from US universities, however, paints a grimmer picture, estimating as many as 130,000 lives lost in the grinding war.
As bodies fall to bullets and disease alike, Sudan’s people face a double calamity—war’s violence and cholera’s merciless spread.
Doctors warn that without urgent international aid, the health system could collapse entirely, leaving millions at the mercy of infection.
