International charities warned that, left unchecked, the disease’s spread might exacerbate similar outbreaks across the African region for weeks or months to come.

Cholera has spread in Sudan. The medical charity MSF says it's the worst outbreak of its kind in many years in a country already gripped by armed conflict.

Cholera is spreading rapidly in Darfur, killing 40 people and infecting more than 2,300 over the past week alone because of water shortages and a collapsed health care system have left communities vulnerable amid the ongoing war in Sudan,