Sudan's White Nile State faces a severe cholera outbreak, with nearly 100 deaths in two weeks. The crisis follows institutional attacks during the ongoing conflict between Sudan’s army and Rapid Support Forces,
The study, published in the journal BMJ Global Health in January, assessed cholera elimination attempts in the World Health Organization’s African region between 2018 and 2022. Since 2021, the region has faced “an acute upsurge” in cholera, the authors write.
Sudan's miliary says it has broken a paramilitary group's yearlong siege of the crucial city of Obeid, restoring access to a strategic area in the south-central region and strengthening crucial supply routes in their nearly two years of war.