At least 40 dead in Sudan’s worst cholera outbreak in years: MSF

At least 40 people have died in Sudan’s Darfur region due to the worst cholera outbreak in years, according to Doctors Without Borders (MSF). The medical charity stated that the vast western 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. MSF mentioned, ‘On top of an all-out war, people in Sudan are now experiencing the worst cholera outbreak the country has seen in years.’ In the Darfur region alone, MSF teams treated over 2,300 patients and recorded 40 deaths in the past week. The NGO reported 2,470 cholera-related deaths by August 11, out of 99,700 suspected cases.