Sudan, Aug. 19 -- Amid a deadly cholera outbreak, Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has been forced to reduce its teams and suspend all of its activities at Zalingei Hospital in Central Darfur state, Sudan, following a violent armed assault inside the facility.

MSF cannot resume its operations at this hospital until all parties provide clear security guarantees that staff and patients will be protected.

The assault took place at Zalingei Hospital after a deceased person with a gunshot wound-reportedly from a looting incident in a nearby camp for displaced people-was brought to the emergency room around 8:20 p.m on August 16. Armed relatives of the person who died forcefully entered the hospital.

Suspending our acti...