A unprecedented cholera outbreak in Sudan has killed 40 people in one week, says MSF. Civil war is worsening the crisis by cutting off water, healthcare, and humanitarian aid access.

At least 40 people have died from cholera in Sudan’s Darfur region in what medical charity Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, described as the country’s worst outbreak in years.

Cholera is spreading rapidly in Darfur, killing 40 people and infecting over 2,300 over the past week alone due to water shortages and a collapsed healthcare system have left communities vulnerable amid the ongoing war in Sudan,