Sudan’s doctors union warned on Saturday of a resurgence of cholera and dengue fever in the capital Khartoum, driven by ongoing fighting, collapsing infrastructure, and contaminated water supplies.

The Preliminary Committee of the Sudan Doctors Union expressed concern that the diseases could rapidly spread to neighbouring states, given the accumulation of waste and severe breakdown of environmental sanitation across the war-torn city.

Dr Adiba Ibrahim Al-Sayyed, an internal medicine and epidemiology specialist with the union, told Reuters that 25 new cholera cases were documented in Khartoum.

The cases include seven in West Omdurman, 11 in the Southern Belt area, and seven in East Nile, Al-Sayyed said, adding that additional uncounted cases were identified in the Al-Ezba area of Khartoum Bahri.