Overview

• Doctors Without Borders reports Darfur treatment centres treated over 2,300 patients and recorded 40 deaths in the past week, straining facilities far beyond bed capacity
• About 380,000 displaced residents in Tawila are surviving on roughly three litres of water per day, well below the WHO emergency minimum of 7.5 litres
• Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have blocked aid convoys and restricted humanitarian access, leaving medical supplies and clean water scarce
• Heavy seasonal rains are contaminating water sources and damaging sewage systems, worsening transmission and driving cases into Chad and South Sudan
• Nationwide suspected cases have approached 100,000 with 2,470 deaths since August 2023, marking the outbreak’s most acute phase in years