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Cholera vaccination campaign launched in Darfur to protect over 1.8 million people
24 September 2025, Port Sudan – A cholera vaccination campaign kicked off on 21 September 2025 in Nyala Ganoub, Nyala Shemal and Biliel localities of South Darfur and on 22 September in Abu Jabra and Ad Daein localities, marking the start of a campaign that aims to reach 1.86 million people aged one year and older with oral cholera vaccines in 6...
Sudan’s Prime Minister affirms his government’s commitment to working with WHO to improve the health of the Sudanese people
WHO Representative Dr Shible Sahbani with Prime Minister of Sudan H.E. Professor Kamil Idris in the presence of WHO and Ministry of Health officials, 21 July 2025.22 July 2025, Port Sudan, Sudan – Yesterday, World Health Organization (WHO) Head of Mission and Representative in Sudan Dr Shible Sahbani paid a courtesy visit to His Excellency the Prime...
WHO strengthens implementing partners’ ESS capacity as part of the World-Bank-funded SHARE project
17 July 2025, Port Sudan, Sudan – The World Health Organization (WHO) is steadfast in its commitment to upholding environmental and social safeguards (ESS) and implementing the Environmental and Social Commitment Plan across all stages of the World Bank-supported Sudan Health Assistance and Response to Emergencies (SHARE) project. Between 22 and...
An oral cholera vaccination campaign aims to reach more than 2.6 million people in Sudan’s Khartoum State
12 June 2025, Port Sudan, Sudan – A 10-day reactive oral cholera vaccination campaign, launched on 10 June in 5 localities in Sudan’s Khartoum State, aims to protect more than 2.6 million people aged 1 year and above from cholera infection, interrupt transmission and help contain the cholera outbreak. Since May 2025 there has been a rapid increase...
After 2 years of conflict Sudan’s health system faces collapse as rainy season nears
15 April 2025, Cairo, Egypt – Two years into the conflict, Sudan’s health system is at breaking point. As the rainy season looms the country faces a perfect storm of disease outbreaks, malnutrition and collapsing services at a time when humanitarian access is dangerously restricted and funding for health is running dry. Today, more than 30...
Sudan: a deepening health crisis that calls for urgent attention
Remarks by Dr Shible Sahbani, WHO Representative in SudanMedia briefing at the Palais des Nations 14 April 2025, Cairo/Geneva – The two-year war in Sudan has plunged the country into a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions marked by violence, displacement, hunger but also disease and death. Currently, 20.3 million people – over 40% of the...
WHO deploys an MHPSS expert to help meet the growing need for support among Sudan’s displaced communities
19 March 2025, Port Sudan, Sudan – The war in Sudan has placed millions of people at continuous risk of displacement and violence. Many have lost their homes, livelihoods and loved ones. Mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) is urgently needed, especially for children, survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) and adults facing distress....
How WHO is supporting cholera outbreak response in Sudan
A child receives oral cholera vaccine in Baqa’a shelter for internally displaced people in Gedaref, October 2024. Credit: WHO / Omer Tarig 19 January 2025, Port Sudan, Sudan – The Federal Ministry of Health of Sudan declared a cholera outbreak on 12 August 2024 after confirmation of samples from Kassala State, which has been reporting suspected...
Living through the scars of war: the struggle of Sudan’s displaced families
Common mental health concerns like depression and anxiety are more prevalent in the Eastern Mediterranean Region than the global average 28 November 2024, Adre/Cairo – Masaadit was 4 when she walked with her mother and 7 siblings from Sudan’s Darfur to Adre in bordering Chad. By that age, she had walked over corpses, witnessed her 11-year-old...
World Bank partners with WHO and UNICEF to boost health care access for 8 million people in Sudan
Photo credit: WHO / Ala Kheir 13 January 2025, Port Sudan, Sudan – World Bank, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) signed a US$ 82 million agreement to improve access to critical health services for more than 8 million vulnerable people across Sudan and strengthen the health system in the country. More than...
