{"id":231121,"date":"2026-04-23T03:44:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-measles-surge-across-darfur-and-kordofan-triggers-urgent-vaccination-response\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T03:44:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:44:56","slug":"sudan-measles-surge-across-darfur-and-kordofan-triggers-urgent-vaccination-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-measles-surge-across-darfur-and-kordofan-triggers-urgent-vaccination-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Measles Surge Across Darfur and Kordofan Triggers Urgent Vaccination Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Sheikan \/ Umm Rawaba \/ El Rahad \/ El Taweisha \/ Kabkabiya \u2014 <em>A rapidly spreading measles outbreak, following a surge in recent months across Sudan&#8217;s Darfur and Kordofan regions, has prompted emergency vaccination campaigns as health systems struggle with rising infections, child deaths, and severe shortages of medical supplies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">In North Kordofan, health authorities have recorded 994 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/trachoma-cases-in-eastern-and-central-sudan-measles-outbreak-in-darfur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">measles cases<\/a>, including 905 in Sheikan, with 646 cases inside displacement camps. In response, the Department of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604220021.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>Sheikan \/ Umm Rawaba \/ El Rahad \/ El Taweisha \/ Kabkabiya \u2014 A rapidly spreading measles outbreak, following a surge in recent months across Sudan&#8217;s Darfur and Kordofan regions, has prompted emergency vaccination campaigns as health systems struggle with rising infections, child deaths, and severe shortages of medical supplies. In North Kordofan, health authorities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":231122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,2269,7404,444,257,6985,254,4708,1613,10716,23062,11318,14083],"class_list":["post-231121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-darfur","tag-kordofan","tag-measles","tag-news","tag-response","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-surge","tag-triggers","tag-urgent","tag-vaccination"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231121","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=231121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}