Meningitis outbreak kills 1,000 in south Sudan
At least 1,000 people have died in one week in south Sudan’s Warap state from meningitis and another unknown disease, state governor Anthony Bol Madut said in a statement sent to Reuters on Sunday. Emerging from Africa’s longest civil war, south Sudan’s infrastructure is almost non-existent and outbreaks of disease are frequent. A cholera outbreak last year killed 147 people. Full Story