♦ Sudan: This week’s news in brief ♦
A compact digest of the past week’s most-read highlights, from the heart of Sudan. Subscribe to receive this digest weekly in your...
Sudan’s Health Minister confirms cholera outbreak in three states
The federal Ministry of Health yesterday acknowledged the outbreak of cholera in Sudan, with 17 deaths and 268 cases reported...
Sudan doctors alarmed at ‘mysterious’ eye disease outbreak
Ophthalmologists have raised their concerns over a perplexing eye disease spreading rapidly across Darfur over the past two weeks, including...
More children dying of hunger in Darfur and Nuba Mountains
Five malnourished children died in Mukjar, Central Darfur, earlier this week. In Delling, South Kordofan, an infant died due to...
‘Two to three children buried daily’ in Sortony camp as famine looms over Darfur
Since famine was declared in Zamzam camp in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, similar conditions have been reported...
Medicines hard to find in war-torn Sudan, kidney patients desperate
Health centres in Sennar, South Darfur, and North Kordofan are reporting a dire shortage of medicines. A kidney dialysis centre...
Sudan: Famine declared in North Darfur capital
The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) have declared a famine in Zamzam camp in El Fasher, as violent...
UNDP: TB/HIV meds worth $900k land in Port Sudan
More than 20 tonnes of essential medicines, diagnostics, valued at just under $900,000, arrived in Port Sudan on charter flight...
Sudan hunger: mothers feed their children tree leaves in besieged Delling
Mothers living in Delling in the northwestern part of South Kordofan are crying for help, as they and their children...
Cholera suspected in North Darfur camp – medics sound alarm
Several suspected cases of cholera have been identified in Zamzam camp for displaced people, near to the North Darfur capital...
Sudanese dying of hunger in Omdurman as food prices ‘rise daily’
People are reportedly dying of hunger in the old Omdurman neighbourhoods of El Mulazemin and Abrof. Prices of basic consumer...
South Kordofan orders removal of illegal gold mining mixers
Maj Gen Abdelaziz Ibrahim, Commander of the 10th Infantry Division in Abu Jubeiha, South Kordofan, has launched a campaign to...
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