Cholera continues to hit Sudan hard, with 1,307 new infections and 18 related deaths reported within a single week, signalling a worsening outbreak.
Between July 12 and 18, cholera cases were documented in 12 of Sudan’s 18 states, bringing the national caseload since August 2024 to 91,034.
Total deaths have now reached 2,302, spanning 17 states, as health systems falter under the strain of disease and war.
Tawila in North Darfur recorded the highest number of new cases last week, with 519, followed by 236 in Qeissan, Blue Nile State.
The previous week saw 674 reported infections and 13 deaths, marking a near doubling of the weekly case count.
The surging epidemic unfolds amid the collapse of Sudan’s public infrastructure, battered by over a year of brutal internal conflict.
Since April 2023, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan’s army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have fought a relentless war that has ravaged the nation.
The United Nations estimates that over 20,000 people have been killed and 14 million displaced in what it calls one of the world’s worst crises.
Independent research led by American universities suggests the true death toll could be closer to 130,000—far higher than official figures.
With hospitals shuttered, sanitation systems broken, and aid delivery severely hindered, disease spreads unchecked in both cities and camps.
Health workers warn that without urgent international intervention, the cholera crisis may spiral out of control and claim countless more lives.
In Sudan, war has not only destroyed homes and lives—it now feeds a deadly epidemic threatening the nation’s very survival.
