8/8/2025–|Last update: 22:26 (Mecca time)
UN agencies called on Friday to take urgent measures to help stop the fatal cholera outbreak that is sweeping Sudan and Sudanese refugee communities in the neighboring Chad.
In her interview with the media in Geneva – Jocelin Elizabeth Knight, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, said that she had met a child shocked at a delegate shelter, describing his condition saying: His experience is a reflection of the experiences of countless children throughout the country.
For its part, the World Health Organization warned that the continued violence continues to push the health system to the brink of collapse, which exacerbated the hunger, disease and despair crisis.
The Health Organization has achieved 174 attacks on health facilities, killing 1171 people, wounding 362 others, and this was affected by health facilities, according to Ilham Nour, senior emergency official of the organization during her talk to reporters in Geneva today.
The organization reported the spread of cholera throughout Sudan, as all states reported the outbreak of the disease.
The UN organization warned that hunger exacerbates the burden of the disease, and indicated that approximately 25 million people suffer from acute food insecurity, and famine is spread in several areas in Darfur and Kordofan, amid fears of expansion with the entry of the dehydration season.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported that the number of children receiving acute malnutrition in Darfur has increased by 46% in the first five months of 2025.
The UNHCR also called for immediate funding to “expand the scope of relief support in the areas of health, hygiene, water, shelter and nutrition, in order to avoid a health disaster in the wake of the announcement of a fatal cholera outbreak in a refugee camp (East Chad) hosting Sudanese refugees from Darfur, which raised concern about the deterioration of health conditions with the depletion of humanitarian aid.
Until early August, 264 Colole and 12 deaths were reported in the Duji refugee camp and the surrounding villages, and suspects appeared in the Tigrwin camp, which also hosts Sudanese refugees.
Since the outbreak of the war in April 2023, more than 873,000 Sudanese refugees have escaped from Darfur and crossed to Chad, which is now hosting the largest number of Sudanese refugees registered since the conflict began.
