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16 Jan 2025
Reliefweb publishes latest Situation Overview on cholera in Sudan
The latest Situation Overview produced by Relief web on the cholera situation in Sudan was published on January 2nd of this year, showing recurrent outbreaks in Sudan as far back as 2017. In that year, disrupted health services and poor sanitation led to approximately 700 deaths and 22,000 infections in two months...
31 Oct 2024
New Outbreak of Cholera in Sudan’s Central and Eastern States
An outbreak of cholera was officially declared on 12 August 2024 by Sudan’s Federal Ministry of Health, after a new wave of cholera cases was reported beginning on 22 July 2024. Between 22 July and 8 October, 21,288 cases, including 626 deaths, were reported across eight states in Sudan. Cholera is especially spreading fast in eastern Sudan, that has recently been affected by heavy rainfalls and floods, and is sheltering millions of people displaced by the conflict between the Sudanese military and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)...
22 Nov 2023
Harare declares emergency amid cholera outbreak
The city of Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, declared a state of emergency on the 17th of November following an outbreak of cholera in the city in which 123 cases and 12 fatalities were recorded. 80% of the cases in Harare were registered in the high-density suburb of Kuwadzana in the northwest of the city...
11 Jan 2023
Cholera spreads in Haïti amid fuel restrictions and gang violence
More than 1,260 cases of cholera have been confirmed in Haiti and more than 290 deaths have been recorded, according to the latest figures released in December 2022 by UNICEF. Haiti is one of ten countries in the world suffering from a food crisis, according to the United Nations. More than three years after the end of the cholera epidemic in Haiti, the waterborne disease reappeared in early October 2022 in a country facing a serious security and humanitarian crisis...
13 Oct 2022
Cholera Returns to Haiti as Country Struggles with Water Supply
Cholera has returned to Haiti after gang activity blocked roads in the country preventing fuel distribution. This has led to fuel shortages which have made it impossible for water distribution services to supply clean drinking water to the country. Between 2010 and 2019, there were 820.000 reported cases of cholera and Haiti and 10...
13 Oct 2022
Cholera Returns to Haiti as Country Struggles with Water Supply
Cholera has returned to Haiti after gang activity blocked roads in the country preventing fuel distribution. This has led to fuel shortages which have made it impossible for water distribution services to supply clean drinking water to the country. Between 2010 and 2019, there were 820.000 reported cases of cholera and Haiti and 10...
6 Oct 2022
Drought and infrastructure destruction lead to rise in Cholera cases in Syria
On the 12th of September, the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Syria expressed serious concern over the ongoing cholera outbreak in Syria. On the 10th of September, the Syrian Ministry of Health declared an outbreak of cholera in Aleppo governorate following 15 confirmed cases and one death...
28 Jul 2022 KYIV, Ukraine
Uncertainty Surrounds Cholera Outbreak In Mariupol
There are unverified reports of cholera outbreaks in Mariupol as the city has no working water system only 3-5% of the population has access to water.
2 Jun 2022 QUETTA, Pakistan
Cholera Outbreak In Balochistan Triggered By Lack Of Clean Drinking Water
Nearly 3,000 cases and 6 deaths from cholera have been reported in Balochistan, mostly attributed to drought and human-cattle water sharing.
25 Oct 2021 PEMBA, Mozambique
Cabo Delgado: Water Shortage Adds Stress To Conflict In Mozambique Province
Lack of access to safe water, worsened by massive population displacements, has led to an increase in cases of cholera and diarrhoea.
7 Jun 2021 Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
Volcano Leaves 32 Dead, Half A Million Without Water In DRC
Deadly eruption near Goma city in eastern DRC forced residents to walk long distances to access water at Lake Kivu. Bid to prevent spread of cholera.
10 Feb 2021 WASHINGTON DC, United States
US Withdrawal Of Military Support To Saudis Offers Hope For End of War, Humanitarian Catastrophe
US President Joe Biden has announced that he is “ending all American support for offensive operations in the war in Yemen, including relevant arms sales”, in a move intended to bring to an end the six-year war that has “created a humanitarian and strategic catastrophe”. Fighting between a Saudi-led Arab coalition backed by the US and UK, and Iranian-backed Houthi rebels has killed more than 100,000 people since March 2015, and displaced 3...