Doctors Without Borders said the Darfur region, which has been a major battleground over more than two years of fighting between the regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, had been hardest hit by the year-old outbreak.

International charities warned that, left unchecked, the disease’s spread might exacerbate similar outbreaks across the African region for weeks or months to come.

TAWILA: At least 40 people have died in Sudan’s Darfur region in the war-torn country’s worst outbreak in years, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Thursday. “On top of an…