{"id":201842,"date":"2025-07-07T02:47:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T00:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-cholera-outbreak-escalates-as-sudan-health-system-crumbles-ocha\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T02:47:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T00:47:56","slug":"sudan-cholera-outbreak-escalates-as-sudan-health-system-crumbles-ocha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-cholera-outbreak-escalates-as-sudan-health-system-crumbles-ocha\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: &#8216;Cholera Outbreak Escalates As Sudan Health System Crumbles&#8217; &#8211; OCHA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">Khartoum \/ El Gezira \/ El Gedaref \/ White Nile \u2014 <em>Sudan&#8217;s cholera outbreak is rapidly worsening, driven by conflict, mass displacement, and a collapsed health system. According to a recent report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), since July 2024, more than 83,000 cases and 2,100 deaths have been reported, with over 32,000 suspected cases recorded in 2025 alone.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/cholera-outbreak-in-sudan-extends-to-six-states\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">outbreak<\/a> now spans 16 of Sudan&#8217;s 18 states. Four states: El Gezira, El Gedaref, Khartoum and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507040005.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khartoum \/ El Gezira \/ El Gedaref \/ White Nile \u2014 Sudan&#8217;s cholera outbreak is rapidly worsening, driven by conflict, mass displacement, and a collapsed health system. According to a recent report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), since July 2024, more than 83,000 cases and 2,100 deaths have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":201843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651631:faa9a80c78bf7a1933dc055aae6c6e3c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,879,23924,8580,5731,257,6061,6582,254,4708,1613,7232],"class_list":["post-201842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cholera","tag-crumbles","tag-escalates","tag-health","tag-news","tag-ocha","tag-outbreak","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-system"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651631:faa9a80c78bf7a1933dc055aae6c6e3c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}