File Photo: A doctor visits cholera patients at an isolation unit outside the Bashayer Hospital, south of Khartoum, Sudan. AFP
The total death toll now stands at 2,408 across all 18 states during the same period, according to the ministry.
The majority of recent infections have been recorded in the Tawila area of North Darfur, in western Sudan, which has become a hotspot for the disease.
Last week, UNICEF reported more than 1,180 cholera cases in Tawila alone—including an estimated 300 in children—and at least 20 related deaths. The town has absorbed more than half a million people fleeing violence since April.
Across the wider Darfur region, the situation is even more alarming, with nearly 2,140 cases and at least 80 fatalities recorded as of 30 July.
"Despite being preventable and easily treatable, cholera is ripping through Tawila and elsewhere in Darfur, threatening children's lives—especially the youngest and most vulnerable," said Sheldon Yett, UNICEF's Representative in Sudan.
In North Darfur alone, more than 640,000 children under the age of five are now at risk. Recent assessments show that the number of children suffering from severe acute malnutrition in the region has doubled over the past year.
The agency plans to deliver more than 1.4 million doses of oral cholera vaccine and bolster treatment centres.
However, it warned that bureaucratic delays, looted aid convoys, and active fighting have hampered the delivery of vital supplies, including vaccines, therapeutic food, and medical kits.
The Sudanese army, at war with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) since April 2023, recaptured the capital Khartoum in May. Still, widespread hunger continues to grip the heart of Africa's third-largest country.
"Children whose bodies are weakened by hunger are far more likely to contract cholera and to die from it," UNICEF warned.
The epicentre of the hunger crisis, however, is the besieged North Darfur state capital of El-Fasher, more than 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) west of Khartoum, where thousands are in danger of starvation, the UN's World Food Programme said.
"Everyone in El-Fasher is facing a daily struggle to survive," said Eric Perdison, the WFP's regional director for eastern and southern Africa, reported by AFP.
The RSF has besieged and sought to seize El-Fasher, the only major city in Darfur still under army control, since May 2024.
The WFP said food prices had soared by 460 percent compared to the rest of the country, forcing soup kitchens to shut while aid remains blocked.
Famine was declared a year ago in the displacement camps surrounding El-Fasher, and the UN estimated it would take hold in the city itself by last May. A lack of data has prevented an official famine declaration.
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