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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

18 December 2024, Port Sudan, Sudan – The World Health Organization (WHO), with support from the European Union (EU), has installed 8 state-of-the-art zero-emission incinerators in hospitals in Northern, Red Sea, Gedaref, Blue Nile and River Nile states. Two incinerators destined for Blue Nile State will be installed as soon as access permits. The...