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Cholera kills 40 as Sudan faces worst outbreak in years, says MSF

A child infected with cholera receives treatment in the cholera isolation centre in a refugee camp in Tawila city Darfur, on August 12, 2025 [AFP]

At least 40 people have died from cholera in Sudan’s Darfur region in what medical charity Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, described as the country’s worst outbreak in years.

MSF said on Thursday that the vast western region, already devastated by more than two years of fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), is bearing the brunt of an outbreak that began a year ago.

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