International charities warned that, left unchecked, the disease’s spread might exacerbate similar outbreaks across the African region for weeks or months to come.

An aid group says cholera is spreading rapidly in Darfur. Doctors Without Borders says that the outbreak has killed 40 people and infected more than 2,300 in the past week.

STORY: Sudanese cholera patients, already displaced due to war, fill a United Nations-run makeshift clinic at Tawila displacement camp in Northern Darfur.The rainy season combined with poor living conditions and inadequate sanitation has led to an outbreak of the disease.

Cholera has claimed at least 40 lives in Sudan’s Darfur region over the last week as the country weathers its worst outbreak of in years,

TAWILA: At least 40 people have died in Sudan’s Darfur region in the country’s worst cholera outbreak in years, Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

A fast-moving cholera outbreak in Sudan’s Darfur region has killed 40 people and sickened more than 2,300 in the past week alone, according to Doctors Without Borders. The medical aid group, also known as Médecins San Frontières or MSF,

Cholera has claimed at least 40 lives in Sudan's Darfur region over the last week as the country weathers its worst outbreak of in years, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said

MSF said on Thursday that the vast western region, already devastated by more than two years of fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), is bearing the brunt of an outbreak that began a year ago.