Sudan is grappling with a third cholera outbreak in three years, raising serious public health concerns across the country. Health authorities are struggling to contain the spread amid limited medical resources and ongoing instability. The latest wave has put additional pressure on already strained healthcare facilities, with aid agencies urging urgent international support. Efforts are underway to improve sanitation and provide treatment to affected communities.

Sudan faces third Cholera wave in three years

A worsening cholera outbreak in Sudan has triggered fresh concern as the World Health Organization raises the alarm over the growing health crisis. The waterborne disease has claimed at least 120 lives, while health officials continue to track a rising number of suspected infections.


Sudan Cholera outbreak: WHO reports over 110 suspected infections 

A deadly cholera outbreak has struck Nepal, leaving 3 people dead and over 300 infected. Health officials are scrambling to contain the spread as hospitals become overwhelmed and clean water access remains a major challenge. The outbreak has sparked fears of a wider health crisis, especially in rural and flood-hit areas.


Nepal battles Cholera outbreak: 3 dead, over 300 infected in Birgunj, health calls for urgent action

A deadly cholera outbreak has struck Nepal, leaving 3 people dead and over 300 infected. Health officials are scrambling to contain the spread as hospitals become overwhelmed and clean water access remains a major challenge. The outbreak has sparked fears of a wider health crisis, especially in rural and flood-hit areas.

Stay tuned for updates on containment efforts and public health warnings.

3 dead, over 300 infected in Nepal: Deadly cholera outbreak

The outbreak of cholera increased due to the 10 years of conflicts and major economic troubles



WHO reports cholera surge in Yemen: 250,000 suspected infections and 861 deaths as of Dec 1

Yemen has seen a surge in cholera, with around 250,000 suspected infections and 861 deaths reported until December 1, said the World Health Organization (WHO). This is 35 per cent of all cholera cases globally, and 18 per cent of the loss of lives in 2024.

It is a double whammy for the African continent. While the continent is battered by Mpox outbreaks, a report published by the World Health Organisation shows that number of death caused by Cholera are on the rise in Africa. The W.H.O. Data shows, over 4000 people died from the disease last year, a 71 per cent increase compared to 2022. The number of reported cases also increased by 13 per cent.

Geographic distribution of Cholera case up by 125% in Africa

The extreme weather in africa has also left another deadly threat of severe outbreaks of cholera in its wake. In southern and east africa, more than 6,000 people have died and there have been nearly 350,000 reported cases since a new series of cholera outbreaks began in late 2021.

Extreme weather in Africa brings deadly Cholera outbreak

Zambia is reeling from a major cholera outbreak that has killed more than 350 people, leading authorities to order schools across the country to remain shut after the end-of-year holidays.

Cholera outbreak in Zambia killed more than 350 people

Zimbabwe has recorded at least 100 suspected deaths from cholera while more than 5,000 possible cases have been reported since late last month, said the country’s ministry of health late Wednesday (Oct 4) prompting the government to impose a number of restrictions in a bid to stop the spread of the disease.

Zimbabwe records at least 100 suspected cholera deaths, imposes restrictions

South Africa is the latest country in the African continent to fall prey to Cholera, a disease that has killed thousands over the past two years. The disease has been declared as a global threat by the World Health Body.

Cholera reaches South Africa | World of Africa

South Africans on Monday blamed their local government for failing to provide clean water as deaths from cholera rose to 15 in the country's most populous province.

Cholera outbreak claims 21 more lives in South Africa

In a new alert, the World Health Organization (WHO) and UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said that more countries now face outbreaks, increasing numbers of cases are being reported and the outcome for patients is worse than 10 years ago.

One billion people in 43 countries face cholera risk, amid 'bleak' outlook

Cholera has gripped Malawi for almost a year, with cases registered in all 29 districts and rising. By the 4th of this month, 704 people had already died and 21,000 cases had been registered, according to official data. So, what went wrong and why is the virus still lurking in the country?

World Of Africa: Malawi battles Cholera scourge

The sun shone down on Stanley Joliva as medical staff at an open-air clinic hovered around him, pumping air into his lungs and giving him chest compressions until he died.

Cholera overwhelms Haiti as cases, deaths spike amid crisis

Haiti is battling a Cholera outbreak, thousands of people across the country are falling sick with the disease which is spreading rapidly. It is straining the resources of non-profit organisations and local hospitals. Medical workers are forced to treat people in makeshift tents as local hospitals are filled up.

Harrowing hospital scenes as Cholera hits Haiti

The Kurdish administration in northern and eastern Syria announced on Saturday that three people had died from cholera and appealed for outside assistance to stop the outbreak.

Syria Kurds seek UN aid after three die of cholera

North Korea announced that it is dealing with an intestinal sickness outbreak adding to the ongoing Covid-19 strain. Experts suggest that the sickness could be typhoid or cholera. North Korea did not reveal the number of patients in the latest sickness.

North Korea’s new outbreak amid ongoing Covid-19 ‘fever’ cases

Britain's defence ministry has warned that Ukraine's southern city of Mariupol is at risk of a major cholera outbreak as medical services are likely already near collapse.

UK warns of major cholera outbreak in Ukraine's southern city of Mariupol

A cholera outbreak has killed 55 people affected by a jihadist violence since the end of last year in northern Mozambique, UNICEF said Wednesday. Nearly 5,000 cases of cholera have been reported, especially among hundreds of thousands of civilians living with host families and in makeshift accommodation in camps for internally displaced people.

Cholera kills 55 people in northern Mozambique

Bangladesh on Wednesday kicked off a drive to vaccinate more than a million people against cholera, which infects tens of thousands a year, as part of an international campaign to eliminate transmission by 2030.

Bangladesh kicks off vaccination blitz to eliminate cholera

More than 1,000 cholera-stricken pigs have been buried in Indonesia after their decaying carcasses were plucked from local waterways, a government official said Tuesday.

Indonesia buries over 1,000 cholera-hit pigs

Hundreds of thousands of children have been infected with suspected cholera in Yemen in the first six months of 2019 and the death toll is set to soar as the rainy season begins, aid groups warn.

Yemen cholera outbreak hits over 200,000 children in 2019

Mozambique will start a cholera vaccination campaign next week in areas ravaged by Cyclone Idai, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday, after five confirmed cases were detected.

Mozambique to start cholera vaccinations next week after cyclone

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