Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is sounding the alarm on the intensifying cholera epidemic in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In the past nine months, more than 58,000 suspected cases have already been recorded, according to data from the Ministry of health. The epidemic is among the worst seen in the last ten years, … Read more
Since July 2025, a cholera epidemic has been ravaging eastern Chad, revealing the challenges associated with a fragile water supply and sanitation systems. As at 26 September, more than 2,475 cases and 141 deaths had been recorded. In overcrowded Sudanese refugee camps and impoverished host communities, conditions are sadly ideal for the disease to spread. … Read more
Malakal, South Sudan– Every epidemic begins with a suspicion – a sudden rise in illness, recurring symptoms and the first severely ill patients. In crisis zones, infectious diseases can spread at lightning speed. Every minute counts when trying to contain them. The first 72 hours are critical: we need to act fast and strategically to … Read more
I am Majda Rizq, a Sudanese woman filled with compassion for my country. I grew up surrounded by my large family in Sudan, where I learned, worked, married, and established my own family. Looking back, it feels as though the life I once knew and the memories I made over decades are a distant dream … Read more
There is an imminent need to improve sanitation and hygiene for many living in overcrowded conditions to prevent the further spread of disease. Juba, 13 November 2024: Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has set up a 20-bed cholera treatment unit (CTU) at the Renk Civil Hospital in South Sudan, in response to a cholera outbreak declared … Read more
A cholera outbreak is gripping across central and eastern Sudan bringing yet more risk, death and misery to people already bruised by the country’s brutal war. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency teams are supporting by treating patients and providing water and sanitation services. Ongoing war, floods and now cholera In August, Sudanese authorities declared a … Read more
Twenty out of Yemen’s 22 governorates have seen a surge in the number of people with acute watery diarrhoea, as more than 63,000 cases have been reported in the country as of 31 May, according to health authorities. Despite the limited testing capacity in the country, more than 2,700 of the tested cases came back … Read more
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders teams have been mobilised urgently in the territory of Rutshuru, in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in response to an outbreak of suspected cases of cholera, particularly in the Binza and Rutshuru health zones. More than 1,500 patients have been treated since the beginning … Read more
Cholera outbreaks are occurring with increasing frequency, and lasting for longer, across Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia. Tetiana Gaviuk, communications manager of the international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) questions in this piece why the death toll from this preventable disease is rising. Cholera is an acute bacterial infection caused by ingesting food … Read more