MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AA) – Northeastern Nigeria has been hit by a cholera outbreak weeks after a devastating flood struck the area, damaging sanitary facilities and the public water system, a medical official has said. Elyakub Yakubu Mohammed, head of the Nigerian Medical Association in Borno state, said 451 suspected cases of cholera were repo...
PORT SUDAN (AA) – The number of deaths from the ongoing cholera outbreak in Sudan has risen to 473, Sudanese Health Ministry announced on Thursday. Meanwhile, the total number of cholera cases in the country has reached 14,944, the ministry said in a statement. The heavy rains and floods that have been affecting Sudan since […]
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – The death toll from floods and rains in Sudan has gone up to 205, while those from cholera reached 185, the Health Ministry said on Sunday. Some 268 new cholera cases have been recorded, including 6 deaths in the states of Kassala, Nile River, and Gedarif, the ministry said in a […]
Port Sudan, Sudan – AFP Sudan’s health minister on Saturday declared a cholera epidemic after weeks of heavy rain in the war-torn country, in a video released by his ministry. “We are declaring a cholera epidemic because of the weather conditions and because drinking water has been contaminated,” Haitham Ibrahim said in...
A cholera outbreak is devastating Afghanistan following recent floods and a crumbling healthcare system. More than 47,000 Afghans have been infected this year alone, with at least 25 deaths reported. The World Health Organization has highlighted Afghanistan’s highest global cholera cases in 2024, which have become worse due to natural di...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Sudan has reported an outbreak of cholera, with 18 deaths from the disease in the eastern state of Gedaref and three in the capital Khartoum. There have been 265 suspected cases of intestine infection with Vibrio bacteria. “The first suspected cases of cholera were recorded in the village of Khater, in […]
