A cholera outbreak in Sudan has killed 120 people, with another 1,102 suspected cases since May in isolated war zones, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
More than three years of war between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have decimated the country’s healthcare system.
This is Sudan’s third wave of cholera in as many years, and began only two months after the last outbreak was declared over in March.
Between July 2024 and March 2026, over 124,400 people were infected and 3,500 killed during the last wave, according to government figures.
Endemic to the northeast African country, cholera used to come “in a cyclic manner every three years”, the WHO’s Sudan chief Dr Shible Sahbani told reporters.
