By: Oluwaseun Lawal

Sudan is bleeding from too many wounds.
The war hasn’t stopped. Hunger still bites. And now—cholera. The worst in years.

Doctors Without Borders says at least 40 people died in Darfur this past week alone. Thousands are sick. The numbers keep climbing.

It’s not just disease. It’s everything happening at once. Darfur has been a battlefield for more than two years—army on one side, the Rapid Support Forces on the other. And in between? Ordinary people. Fleeing. Hiding. Drinking dirty water because there’s no clean one.

“In Tawila, people survive on three litres of water a day,” MSF says. “That’s less than half the minimum needed to drink, cook, stay clean.” Imagine that—three litres to do everything.

Some drink from wells that carry death. Two weeks ago, they even pulled a body from one. But days later, people were back to drinking from it. Not because they wanted to. Because there’s nothing else.

In just one year, nearly 100,000 suspected cholera cases have been recorded in Sudan. Almost 2,500 deaths. The war pushes people from their homes. The rains poison the water. And the disease follows them—into Chad, into South Sudan.

“This is beyond urgent,” says MSF’s head of mission, Tuna Turkmen.
War survivors, he warns, should not be left to die from something so easily preventable.