10-16 August 2025 Sudan News Summary: Dire humanitarian situation across Darfur and the ‘beyond urgent’ cholera outbreak

22 Aug

Arabic news roundup

By William Greenwood

The death toll from the drone attack on Kutum market in North Darfur last week (August 3) has risen to seven, after two of the wounded died of their injuries on Thursday and Friday.
Kutum is experiencing a sharp rise in the prices of basic commodities, with a sack of sugar costing 250,000 Sudanese pounds, a jerrycan of oil 130,000 Sudanese pounds, a kilogram of meat 9,000 Sudanese pounds, and a sack of flour 95,000 Sudanese pounds, amid a near-total absence of aid from humanitarian organisations.
Residents, especially the displaced, rely on small-scale farming and remittances from relatives outside Sudan, while the arrival of autumn has exacerbated the challenges due to the collapse of homes caused by the rains.
Kutum includes the Kassab and Fata Borno camps, which are suffering from food shortages and a lack of aid.

Amid the worsening humanitarian situation in Darfur, displaced people in Kalma camp, located about 12 kilometres east of Nyala, are facing extremely difficult living conditions due to the cessation of humanitarian aid, leading to a sharp deterioration in food security within the camp, one of the largest IDP communities in Sudan.
Local sources inside the camp reported that aid flows to Kalma residents have been cut off for nearly four years, with the exception of limited aid provided by the World Food Programme, which was insufficient to cover the needs of all the displaced people residing in the camp.
Reports from within the local community indicate that some families are now spending nights without food, amid growing fears of widespread malnutrition-related deaths.
In addition to the food crisis, the camp is suffering from a clear deterioration in the health situation, with a widespread cholera outbreak among the population, further complicating the humanitarian situation and threatening the lives of thousands.

By Samuel Hunt

Displacement, war and rain are driving a deadly cholera outbreak in Sudan that has killed 40 people this week.
MSF charity calls situation ‘beyond urgent’ as thousands seeking refuge from war rely on contaminated water.
In just the Darfur region, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams treated over 2,300 patients and recorded 40 deaths in the past week due to cholera.

U.N. sounds alarm on Sudan as over 60 die of malnutrition in a week in El Fasher
The WFP still cannot access the city to deliver humanitarian aid.
“Everyone in El Fasher is facing a daily struggle to survive,” said Eric Perdison, WFP’s Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa. “People’s coping mechanisms have been completely exhausted by over two years of war.”
The RSF has attacked the famine-hit Abu Shouk camp just outside El Fasher, home to at least 200,000 displaced people, killing at least 40 civilians.
Abu Shouk, where at least 200,000 people live, said some of those killed in the attack were shot in their homes while others were gunned down in public.

Bill Greenwood