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Cholera kills 40 as Sudan faces worst outbreak in years, says MSF
MSF says displacement, war and rain driving deadly cholera outbreak in Sudan as infections continue to mount.
Patients receive treatment in the cholera isolation centre at the refugee camps of western Sudan, in Tawila city, Darfur [AFP]
A worker disinfects a man at the entrance to a cholera isolation centre at the refugee camps in Tawila city. [AFP]
The first cholera cases in Tawila were detected in early June in the village of Tabit, said Sylvain Penicaud, a project coordinator for French charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
Across North Darfur state, more than 640,000 children under the age of five are at risk, according to UNICEF. [AFP]
Cholera is a highly contagious bacterial infection that causes severe diarrhoea and spreads through contaminated water and food. [AFP]
Causing rapid dehydration, Cholera can kill within hours if left untreated, yet it is preventable and usually easily treatable with oral rehydration solutions. [AFP]
MSF has opened a 160-bed cholera treatment centre in Tawila, with plans to expand to 200 beds. [AFP]
The World Health Organization said last week that cholera "has swept across Sudan, with all states reporting outbreaks". [AFP]
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People wait in line to fill water canisters from an aid truck in Gaza City. [Mahmoud Issa/Anadolu]
Khadija Sobh, 18 gives water to her seven-month-old daughter, Janin Sobh, inside their tent in the Daraj neighbourhood in Gaza City. [Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP]
A boy carries a jerrycan filled with water drawn from the tank of a mobile water cistern destroyed in an Israeli bombardment in the Nuseirat refugee camp. [Eyad Baba/AFP]
More than 75 per cent of Gaza's wells are out of service, and 100,000 metres (62 miles) of water mains have been damaged. [Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP]
Displaced Palestinians collect water at a tent camp in Gaza City. [Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]
Although Gaza’s water crisis has received less media attention than the ongoing hunger crisis, its effects are just as deadly. [Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]
“Just like food, water should never be used for political ends,” UNICEF spokeswoman Rosalia Bollen says. [Mahmoud Issa/Anadolu]
People gather to receive food distributed by a charity in Gaza City. [Abdalhkem Abu Riash/Anadolu]
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River Seine reopens to Paris swimmers, after Olympics, century-long ban
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Sudan reports 70 cholera deaths in Khartoum in two days
Cholera outbreak is centred around the capital city, Khartoum, which has been devastated by more than two years of war.
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