At least 40 people have died from cholera in the Darfur region in war-torn Sudan in the past week. According to Doctors Without Borders (MSF), the country is experiencing the worst outbreak of the disease in several years.
In one year, the country has seen almost 100,000 suspected cases of the disease and nearly 2,500 cholera-related deaths.
The situation is reported to be worst in Tawila in northern Darfur, where hundreds of thousands of people have fled the fighting in and around the city of El-Fasher. The hospital in Tawila, with a capacity of 130 admitted patients, had a total of 400 patients during the first week of August.
