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In Sudan, the cholera epidemic has claimed 1,235 lives, according to the Sudanese Ministry of Health. The Sudanese Ministry of Health reported that the total number of cholera cases in the country had reached 47,366. According to the Ministry’s figures, the number of people who have lost their lives in …

Forty-four cholera cases have been reported in Kenya’s Tana River county, as flooding raises the risk of spread of water-borne diseases, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. A statement by the World Health Organization (WHO) which cites the numbers, says Kenyan officials supported by WHO and other agencies have been …

Zambian authorities have ordered churches to limit the duration of worship to two hours as part of measures to curb the spread of the cholera epidemic wreaking havoc in the country. No sale of perishable and ready-to-eat foods in all churches, Ndiwa Mutelo, a senior official in charge of religious …

Kenya has reported an outbreak of cholera in six out of 47 counties after recording 61 cases of the diarrhoeal disease. Thirteen people were admitted to hospitals and eight others had already been discharged while 40 were being treated as outpatients, the health ministry said. The ministry says drought in …

The number of cholera contaminations continues to increase in Haiti, according to a new bulletin from the Ministry of Public Health obtained on Tuesday. The new figures fuel fears of a new disaster in this country already plunged into a humanitarian and security crisis. As of Monday, 606 suspected and …

The Cameroonian Ministry of Public Health said that as of February 14, 1,242 cases of cholera have been detected in the country, including 35 deaths. “Five of the ten regions in Cameroon are affected by the disease,” the ministry said. It was first detected in January in the South West …

Cholera disease continues to wreak havoc in West Africa. The epidemic has killed 83 people in Niger, where authorities have recorded more than 2,300 cases since March 13. Out of Niger’s eight regions, six are said to have been affected by the outbreak, which has been worsened by floods. Read …

Dealing with a cholera outbreak at the same time as the highly contagious Delta strain of coronavirus is posing an existential threat to Nigeria, the head of the country’s public health agency says. According to the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), more than half of the country’s 36 states …

A nationwide cholera outbreak in Nigeria has killed more than 800 people in the last few months, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says. Many of the victims are children, and the bacterial disease continues to spread with more than 31,000 cases since January, but most of those being …