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Meanwhile, South Sudan has ordered schools to shut amid extreme heatwaveA cyclone warning has been issued in northern Australia for coastal communities from the island of Groote Eylandt to the Northern Territory/Queensland border. Tropical Cyclone Megan, which developed in the Gulf of Carpentaria on Saturday, has been declared a category 3 cyclone by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. Megan is forecast to make landfall...

Authorities advise parents to keep children indoors during extreme heatwave, expected to last two weeksSouth Sudan is closing all schools from Monday in preparation for an extreme heatwave expected to last two weeks.The health and education ministries have advised parents to keep all children indoors as temperatures are expected to soar to 45C (113F). Continue reading...

MSF begins vaccine drive against incurable disease, which is spread via dirty water and kills thousands of pregnant womenA push to tackle an outbreak of hepatitis E in South Sudan is being hampered by flooding that has isolated populations and turned villages into islands.A pioneering vaccination drive has begun to protect people against a spate of cases but the true scale of the disease...