Tag: Volcano
Baliau village apologises for assault on PNG’s volcano island journalist
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The village of Baliau on Papua New Guinea's Manam island has publicly apologised to an assaulted journalist reporting for The National...
Pacific media freedom groups blast assault on reporters on volcano island
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Some villagers affected by the volcanic eruption on Manam island haven taken out their anger and frustration against four journalists covering...
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...
PNG deploys ships and soldiers to Manam for emergency evacuation
By Scott Waide in Lae
Madang Governor Peter Yama confirmed today that at least two Papua New Guinea Defence Force vessels were being sent to...
PNG’s Manam volcano erupts again, forcing islanders to evacuate
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Manam volcano in Papua New Guinea has erupted again, reports journalist Scott Waide on his blog.
This is his blog's picture of...
‘It’s up to God and the land’ on Vanuatu’s Ambae volcano...
By Dan McGarry in Port Vila
Over the course of a week earlier this month, a French/Ni-Vanuatu documentary team ventured to the summit of Ambae’s...
Kilauea volcano ash rains down on Hawai’i with more blasts predicted
USGS geologist Michelle Coombs giving a status update about Hawai'i's Kilauea volcano. Video: USGS
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Scientists are predicting an eruption that shot ash...
Vanuatu pressing ahead with Ambae volcano island evacuation plan
By Len Garae in Port Vila
Vanuatu is still pressing ahead with its plan to evacuate Ambae island for the second time in six months...
Ambae’s volcano still smoking, rumbling but now ‘normal’
By Anita Roberts in Port Vila
The frequent volcano rumblings felt on Ambae and surface events seen from neighboring islands of Maewo, Pentecost and even...
Ambae is Vanuatu’s story, not just a global media backdrop
OPINION: By Dan McGarry
It happens every time disaster strikes in the developing world. The inhabitants of the place become background players in a drama...
Howling dogs all that’s left in volcano island Ambae’s empty villages
By Dan McGarry on Santo
Only the howling of dogs can be heard now in Ambae’s abandoned villages. The entire population has now been moved...
Ambae volcano ‘more stable’, say Vanuatu’s monitoring scientists
Locals evacuate Ambae island as Manaro Voui volcano threatens to erupt in Vanuatu. – Video: Guardian Wires
By Godwin Ligo in Port Vila
New observations...
Vanuatu President seeks calm, PM says ‘we’re not ready for disasters’
By Anita Roberts in Port Vila
Vanuatu sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire and though it is accustomed to being hit by cyclones and...
Ambae Manaro volcano’s crater lakes make it a serious threat to...
Smoke billows from Vanuatu’s Manaro Voui volcano on Ambae island. Video: The Guardian
ANALYSIS: By Chris Firth
If you turned on the television this week, you...
Vanuatu’s mass exodus from volcano island Ambae under way
By Anita Roberts in Port Vila
Vanuatu's government is moving the entire population of 11,000 people from Ambae to the neighbouring islands of Pentecost, Maewo,...
Vanuatu orders evacuation of Ambae’s 11,000 people over volcano’s gases
A RNZAF flyover of Manaro Voui volcano on Ambae island. Video: NZDF
By Bob Makin in Port Vila
The Vanuatu government’s Council of Ministers has ordered...
