{"id":238501,"date":"2026-07-11T18:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-new-cholera-outbreak-alert-for-sudans-war-weary-communities\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T18:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:58:12","slug":"sudan-new-cholera-outbreak-alert-for-sudans-war-weary-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-new-cholera-outbreak-alert-for-sudans-war-weary-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: New Cholera Outbreak Alert for Sudan&#8217;s War-Weary Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">In war-torn Sudan, a deadly new cholera outbreak has already claimed more than 100 lives, heightening serious concerns for vulnerable communities including in besieged El-Obeid, where daily drone attacks have continued to hamper aid access.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">&#8220;<strong>Cholera is back and it&#8217;s affecting several states<\/strong>, mainly in the western part of the country, the Darfurs and the Kordofans,&#8221; said Dr Shible Sahbani, UN World Health Organization (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WHO<\/a>) Representative to Sudan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Briefing journalists in Geneva, the official&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607100404.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>In war-torn Sudan, a deadly new cholera outbreak has already claimed more than 100 lives, heightening serious concerns for vulnerable communities including in besieged El-Obeid, where daily drone attacks have continued to hamper aid access. &#8220;Cholera is back and it&#8217;s affecting several states, mainly in the western part of the country, the Darfurs and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,13490,879,7103,257,6582,254,4708,1613,8105,49197],"class_list":["post-238501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alert","tag-cholera","tag-communities","tag-news","tag-outbreak","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans","tag-warweary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238501","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=238501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}