5 to 10 May 2025: MSF resume fight against cholera, persecution of volunteers in Kadugli, fear in Port Sudan, UN concerns over displacement, and fighting in West Kordofan

13 May

By William Greenwood

Médecins Sans Frontières resumes cholera response in southern Khartoum

The MSF has announced the resumption of its activities at Bashayer Hospital in southern Khartoum to combat the increasing number of cholera cases, after a hiatus of 5 months.
The organisation suspended its’ work at Bashayer Hospital on January 10 in protest against the increase in armed attacks on medical staff and patients.
MSF medical coordinator Suleiman Ammar reported that their teams at Bashayer Hospital are working to equip a 20-bed cholera treatment unit to ensure its capacity to receive patients.

MSF has warned that the health situation in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, is worsening due to the war, making access to basic, life-saving healthcare impossible.
Suleiman Ammar, the organisation's medical coordinator, said that the war has had a "devastating impact on people's ability to access healthcare in Khartoum.”
Ammar considered the resumption and expansion of basic healthcare services at Bashayer Hospital and beyond “unbearable, because we needed it yesterday.”
The MSF’s emergency coordinator called for an expansion of humanitarian assistance and access in Khartoum, protection of medical care, and ensuring access to care for all Sudanese across the country.

Security forces in Kadugli have continued their campaign to pursue and arrest political activists and members of the Kadugli Emergency Room since last Friday
Sources reported that the Kadugli Security Cell continues to pursue and arrest political activists and members of the Emergency Room on the pretext of transmitting and disseminating information related to the cases of officials accused of corruption.
The sources warned that the detainees will be transferred from the Security Cell headquarters to intelligence detention centres.

Port Sudan has been gripped by panic and displacement after drone strikes hit the city and army-controlled areas in eastern and southern Sudan.
The attack led to panic, displacement, and the flight of a large number of civilians from Port Sudan, which the government has temporarily established as its headquarters.
These attacks raise concerns about the potential disruption of humanitarian aid to Sudan.

The UN has expressed concern over the mass displacement from Sudan to Chad in recent days.
The UNHCR representative in Chad, Magatte Guisse, revealed during a press conference in Geneva today that "some 20,000 people, mostly exhausted and traumatized women and children, have arrived in Chad in the past two weeks alone.”
He stressed that "this influx is the result of escalating violence in Sudan's North Darfur region, particularly in and around El Fasher, which has caused mass displacement at an alarming rate.”

Amid ongoing clashes between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, the National Umma Party announced the deaths of dozens in West Kordofan State.
In a statement, the party noted the deaths of 26 people in the city of El Nahud as a result of attacks by the Rapid Support Forces, adding that tens of thousands have been displaced from several areas in the state as a result of the clashes.
It emphasised that "the complete closure of markets and the disruption of health facilities and basic services in the city exacerbates the catastrophic humanitarian situation, and threatens the lives of more than 1.8 million citizens living in the region.”

Bill Greenwood