♦ 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...
Eastern Sudan farmers ‘optimistic’ about upcoming harvest
In eastern Sudan, the head of the agricultural committee of the New Halfa Agricultural Project in Kassala told Radio Dabanga...
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...
Sudanese ‘left in the open’ after heavy rain hits Chad camp, as Northern Sudan floods kill 5
Multiple houses accommodating Sudanese refugees collapsed in eastern Chad’s Iridimi camp due to heavy rain and flooding yesterday and today....
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...
Heavy rain: Sudan public urged to seek high ground
The public in large swaths of Sudan have been cautioned to avoid low-lying areas, rivers and creeks, as heavy rains...
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...
Wildfires in Sudan’s Northern State surge tenfold, palm farmers concerned
85 fruitful palm trees were ravaged by a fire in Delgo, Northern State, on Monday morning, just one month before...
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...
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