International charities warned that, left unchecked, the disease’s spread might exacerbate similar outbreaks across the African region for weeks or months to come.

Cholera has spread in Sudan. The medical charity MSF says it's the worst outbreak of its kind in many years in a country already gripped by armed conflict.

At least 40 people have died in Sudan's Darfur region in the country's worst cholera outbreak in years, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Thursday. "On top of an all-out war, people in Sudan are now experiencing the worst cholera outbreak the country has seen in years,