Officials say new fighting has hit Sudan’s capital as the death toll jumps up from the country’s cholera outbreak.
– New fighting rocked Sudan's capital on Thursday, as the death toll rapidly increased from the country's worsening cholera outbreak, officials and Sudanese media said.
For months, some of the worst fighting has been in the city of El Fasher, the capital of the North Darfur state. RSF forces have laid siege to the city since May. On Thursday, UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk said that artillery shelling on a market there had killed at least 20 civilians on Sep. 20 and 21.jumped by nearly 100 or nearly 20% in only two days, Sudan’s health ministry said Wednesday, in a worrying sign that the disease is spreading more rapidly.
Cholera was officially declared an outbreak on August 12 by the health ministry after a new wave of cases was reported starting July 22.is spreading in areas devastated by recent heavy rainfalls and floods, especially in eastern Sudan which sheltered millions of people displaced by the conflict between the Sudanese military and a rival paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces .
Over 900 areas in 11 states have been affected by cholera between June and September 24, with the northern state being the most impacted, according to the ministry.that an estimated 3.4 million children under the age of five are at high risk of epidemic diseases.
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