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.

L’organisation Médecins sans frontières signale, le 14 août, une forte recrudescence de la maladie, avec « plus de 2 300 patients » soignés dans la seule région du Darfour.