Tag: Disaster relief
Vanuatu quake: Hospitals under pressure as death, damage toll grows
By Harry Pearl of BenarNews
Vanuatu is taking stock of damage from a powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake that has killed at least 14 people and...
French Polynesia hosts ‘Marara’ military exercise for Asia-Pacific
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
French Polynesia has just played host to a 15-nation "Marara" military exercise aimed at increasing "interoperability"...
Hundreds feared dead after huge landslide in Papua New Guinea
By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
Scores of people have died in a huge landslide which has struck a remote village in the Papua...
Indonesia sends disaster aid supplies to Vanuatu – warning over West...
RNZ Pacific
Indonesia has sent 30 tonnes of relief supplies to aid the Vanuatu government's recovery efforts post three major natural disasters earlier this year.
The...
Vanuatu minister says harvests will take time to recover after cyclones
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
Vanuatu's Minister of Climate Change warns "there's going to be a lot of hardship" for people waiting for their...
Desperate call for food, water from 5000 on Manam volcano island
EMTV's Madang correspondent Martha Louis reports from Manam island. Video: EMTV
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
More than 5000 people, including children, on Papua New Guinea's Manam...
Highlands security crisis hampers PNG quake response
By Johnny Blades of Radio NZ Pacific
An ongoing security crisis in Papua New Guinea's Hela province is preventing many earthquake-affected communities receiving relief.
February's magnitude...
Harsh response lessons abound in wake of PNG’s quake devastation
BRIEFING: By Sylvester Gawi in Tari, Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea's Highlands earthquake disaster has brought to light some of the many things that...
31 deaths so far in PNG quake, but ‘hit-and-miss’ on rural...
Professor Chalapan Kaluwin of the University of Papua New Guinea's School of Natural and Physical Sciences says the country should prepare itself for more...
Massive Cyclone Pam disaster aid – good intentions but much unusable
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Tropical Cyclone Pam brought wide-spread devastation to Vanuatu nearly two years ago.
It also brought an outpouring of aid - including 70...
