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 from cholera in Sudan’s Darfur region in what medical charity Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, described as the country’s worst outbreak in years.