Dried bed of a lake in the Shwe Settaw natural reserve in Magway Region in May 2019. (AFP)

‘No respite’: Dry Zone sizzles and burns

Central Myanmar has been gripped by an unprecedented heat wave, amid a brutal civil war that has seen public services collapse, while the military razes shelters and sabotages water supplies.

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