...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...’s Ministry of Health announced on Wednesday that 83 new suspected cases of cholera were recorded in Red Sea State on Tuesday.
The cholera vaccination campaign in Gedaref and Gezira states concluded last November, after receiving 2.2 million vaccine doses as the first batch from the Global Mechanism for the Elimination of Cholera.
The Technical Committee for Emergency and Epidemic Control reviewed its cumulative report on the disease during its meeting with the State Health Sector Director General on Wednesday at the Emergency Operations Center in Port Sudan. The number of acute watery diarrhoea (cholera) cases in the state reached 1,702, including 63 deaths, from the time of the first notification in October to December 12th.