KHARTOUM, 15 Sept. - (ANA) - At least 25 people have died in a 48-hour period in Sudan’s Darfur due to the spread of cholera, the General Coordination of Displaced Persons and Refugee Camps announced.

 

Local media reported that the spokesperson of the organisation, Adman Rijal, said that 12 people had died on Saturday and 13 on Sunday.

 

Rijal added that the cholera outbreak has affected at least 11,733 people and killed around 545 others.

 

The area with the highest number of cases is Tawila, where at least 5,417 cases have been recorded and around 78 people killed.

 

The town is located 60 kilometres west of El Fasher, which has been besieged by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for more than a year.

 

Other areas which are seeing a sharp uptick in cases include Jebel Marra in central Darfur as well as Nyala, which houses many camps for displaced people.

 

Cholera has in recent months been spreading at an unprecedented rate in Sudan, with conditions compounded by the shortage of medical supplies, key infrastructure and services.

 

Rijal said that the situation is a "forgotten humanitarian disaster, ignored by the international community in a country torn apart by war, famine, disease, epidemics and food shortages".

 

He called on humanitarian groups and the World Health Organisation to make more effort in preventing the situation into spilling into a humanitarian emergency.

 

Al-Araby TV’s correspondent in Omdurman, Ammar al-Maghribi, reported that centres located in north Darfur are facing a severe shortage of intravenous solutions and other basic medical supplies.

 

Al-Maghribi noted that the area has also experienced heavily rainfall in recent weeks, which coincides with the spread of other diseases such as dengue fever and malaria.

 

Military operations in the country have made it difficult for humanitarian aid to reach some of the worst hit areas.

 

The RSF's siege of El Fasher has prevented any aid from reaching civilians trapped inside the city.

 

The UN said earlier this month that the RSF has committed numerous crimes against humanity in Sudan's civil war, in particular in its siege of El-Fasher in western Darfur.

 

The RSF has been at war with the Sudanese army since mid-April 2023. More than 20,000 people have been killed in the conflict and around 15 million others have been displaced, according to the United Nations and local authorities.   - (ANA) -

 

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