CAIRO - Nearly 100 people died of cholera in two weeks since the waterborne disease outbreak began in Sudan's White Nile State, said Doctors Without Borders.
The international medical aid group, also known as Médecins Sans Frontières, said Thursday that 2,700 people have contracted the disease since February 20, including 92 people who died. Sudan plunged into war nearly two years ago when tensions simmered between the Sudanese army and its rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) with battles in Khartoum and across the country.
The RSF launched intense attacks last month in the White Nile State that killed hundreds of civilians, including infants. The Sudanese military announced at the time that it made advances there, cutting crucial supply routes to the RSF.
During the RSF attacks in the state on February 16, the group fired a projectile that hit the Rabak power plant, causing a mass power outage and triggering the latest wave of cholera, according to MSF. Subsequently, people in the area had to rely mainly on water obtained from donkey carts because water pumps were no longer operational.
