Darfur cholera cases increase at an “alarming” rate while the number of deaths in Sudan exceeds 3,000, who says who

The number of cases of declared cholera increases in Darfur and more than 3,000 people in Sudan died in the last 14 months of civil war, according to the World Health Organization

Geneva – The number of cases of declared cholera increases in Darfur and more than 3,000 people throughout Sudan died from the disease in the last 14 months of civil war, the United Nations Health Agency announced on Tuesday.

The current epidemic of bacterial infection caused by contaminated food or water has spread to the 18 states of the country torn apart by the war in Kassala in July of last year, said the World Health Organization.

Hala Khudari, his assistant representative in Sudan, said who launched a vaccination campaign targeting 406,000 people in the north of the Darfur which occurs “while cases of Darfur cholera continue to increase at an alarming pace – at an alarming rate of fatality, to be specific”.

On Sunday, some 12,739 cases and 358 deaths were reported in more than half of the localities in Darfur, she said. The epidemic reached the state of Darfur in western Sudan in May.

“The cases reported in Darfur continue to increase in the midst of severe access constraints which hinder the required response scale,” Khudari told journalists in Geneva by video from Port Sudan.

The conflict between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary group of the rapid support forces broke out in April 2023 in Khartoum before spreading across the country. The civil war killed at least 40,000 people and moved to 12 million others, said UN officials.

The two parties were accused of having committed atrocities such as ethnic cleaning, extrajudicial murders and sexual violence against civilians, including children. Meanwhile, many people through Sudan have been pushed to the edge of the famine.

The conflict and the increase in the movements of people who fled the fighting has limited access to basic services such as drinking water, food and health care.

Overall, more than 113,600 cases and more than 3,000 deaths were reported across the country, reaching a death ratio of 2.7%, well above the target threshold of 1%, Khudari said.