Cholera, dengue outbreaks reported in Sudan as conflict between armed forces continue, UN says

As Sudan’s military and rival paramilitary force continue its deadly fighting, outbreaks of cholera and dengue fever have been reported in the impoverished nation.

Sudan was engulfed in chaos in mid-April, when simmering tensions between the military and a powerful paramilitary group exploded into open warfare in the capital of Khartoum and other areas across the east African nation.

The medical charity Doctors Without Borders has set up two centers to treat cholera patients along with two mobile teams in Qadarif. The U.N. health and refugee agencies have renovated the isolation center for cholera at the Qadarif Teaching Hospital, the province's main medical facility.