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Cholera kills more than two thousand Sudanese

The epicentre of cholera is in Tawila in North Darfur, home to huge numbers of refugees from the besieged city of El Fasher.

MSF says Sudan is experiencing the worst cholera outbreak for many years, killing more than two thousand four hundred people. Local health workers teaching people how avoid the disease have also fallen ill.

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(Photo: Sudanese cholera patients are treated at a United Nations-Run makeshift clinic, in Tawila ; Credit: Reuters)

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