Sudan suffers deadly cholera outbreak
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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An outbreak of cholera in Sudan is reported to have killed hundreds of people. The epicentre is in North Darfur - home to a large number of displaced people. More on the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza. President Zelensky has been in London ahead of Friday's Trump-Putin summit. Taylor Swift has a new album coming out. And when is it right to take your shoes off in the office? The Global News Podcast brings you the breaking news you need to hear, as it happens. Listen for the latest headlines and current affairs from around the world. Politics, economics, climate, business, technology, health – we cover it all with expert analysis and insight.Get the news that matters, delivered twice a day on weekdays and daily at weekends, plus special bonus episodes reacting to urgent breaking stories. Follow or subscribe now and never miss a moment. Get in touch: [email protected]
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.1 | A cholera outbreak in Sudan, more than 2,000 people are reported to have died. |
| 0:10.9 | Last minute diplomatic talks between President Zelensky and the British Prime Minister here in London, |
| 0:16.4 | a day ahead of Donald Trump's meeting with Vladimir Putin. |
| 0:19.8 | How to curb plastic pollution. |
| 0:24.0 | Also in this podcast. |
| 0:25.6 | We've made songs that I'm so proud of. |
| 0:27.8 | I mean, it felt like it felt like catching lightning in a bottle. |
| 0:30.4 | It's good news for the Swifties, singer-songwriter Taylor Swift has a new album coming out. |
| 0:40.0 | Sudan has been gripped by conflict for more than two years |
| 0:43.6 | as the Sudanese army and the rival rapid support forces vie for control of the country. |
| 0:49.0 | It's been devastated by the fighting and subsequent mass displacement and famine. |
| 0:53.8 | Tens of thousands of people have died. |
| 0:56.1 | Now the medical charity, MSF, says the country is experiencing the worst cholera outbreak for many years. |
| 1:02.4 | Fatalities have already reached more than 2,400. |
| 1:06.1 | The epicenter of the disease is the town of Toililoh in North Darfur, home to huge numbers of refugees. |
| 1:12.5 | I got more details from our correspondent Barbara Plaitasher, who's in Nairobi. |
| 1:17.1 | There was this sudden influx of hundreds of thousands of people into Toiloh, because of the |
| 1:21.9 | fighting in the nearby city of Elfashir in recent months. So you can imagine the struggle to provide clean water and hygiene enough to trains for all those people, |
| 1:31.5 | which is in already desperate circumstances. |
| 1:34.8 | So the MSF estimates that people in the camps in Tawila have less than half a water |
| 1:40.3 | that meets the WHO emergency threshold. |
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