Sudan: Cholera Appears in North and West Darfur, Again in Khartoum

25 August 2017

Jebel Marra / El Sareif Beni Hussein / Foro Baranga / Khartoum / Zalingei / Nyala / Sennar — Cases of cholera re-emerged in southern Khartoum state. The disease emerged in El Sareif Beni Hussein and Foro Baranga localities in Darfur for the first time. And in East Jebel Marra, the Health Ministry deployed a medical team to an area where infections have rapidly spread in the past months.

The Minister of Health in the state, Yagoub El Damoki, acknowledged in a statement to El Jareeda newspaper the existence of deaths due to the disease, saying the majority of them were children and the elderly, but denied the a shortage of medicines.

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