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A devastating cholera outbreak has claimed the lives of over 170 people within a single week in Sudan, underscoring the compounding toll of a brutal civil conflict that has decimated infrastructure and overwhelmed public services. The Sudanese Health Ministry revealed on May 27 that 2,700 new cases were recorded in one week alone, with Khartoum […]
Southern Algeria and northern Nigeria continue to struggle to contain a cholera outbreak amid floods and insecurity. In Algeria’s south, cholera and diphtheria spread among a late reaction from health authorities leading to over 23 deaths. Videos shared on social media showed congested hospitals in the impoverished Algerian south with patients lying on the ground […]
South Sudan Wednesday announced 179 cases of cholera outbreak that has also caused the death of one person since the report of the first case in February, Anadolu news agency reports. Yolanda Awel Deng Juach, the Health Minister of the African country indicated that the cases have been circumvented in Malakal region, in the state […]
Burundi’s minister of Public Health Sylvie Nzeyimana has declared cholera outbreak in capital Bujumbura, after dozens of cases have been spotted late last week. Her department in a statement indicated that between December 30 and 31, a dozen suspected cholera cases were identified in several areas of the city, presenting symptoms of diarrhea and vomiting. […]
Algeria is facing an outbreak of Cholera with 59 confirmed cases so far in five provinces, 11 were registered in the capital city, the health ministry said. Observers estimate that the scale of the cholera outbreak is much higher than what authorities claim as the polluted water continue to be considered the main cause for […]
The cholera epidemic is spreading rapidly in Algeria where more and more people are falling sick, hospitalized or dying from this highly contagious disease, according to local press reports. North African countries are deeply concerned about the situation, fearing contamination, as Algerian authorities were slow to react to the plague, failed to spot the early […]
A scandal! That is how Algerian press described the outbreak of Cholera in Algeria twenty years after it was eradicated. The health ministry confirmed that 41 people have contracted the disease in Algiers, Blida, Tipazza and Bouira, although doctors deem the number lower than the real scale of the outbreak. Jamal Fourara, an official from […]