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Displaying 52 of about 52 resultsBy Kate Isabel Booth, Bruce Tranter and Christine Eriksen
The fire season has started early. Homes were destroyed last month in bushfires near Lancefield, Victoria, while buildings and lives have been lost as fires continue to sweep through southern Western Australia.
Alongside the devastating loss of life and properties, many properties potentially i…
By Navinesh Kumar, IFRC
Four months after tropical cyclone Pam swept through the Pacific, the Papua New Guinea Red Cross continues to assist communities affected by the storm.
Lydia Ruru, 26, a mother of an 11-month old baby, is from the Province of Western New Britain in the District of Hoskins. Lydia is a volunteer with the Red Cross recovery teams…
Kathmandu – Thousands of porters are carrying food and other relief high into Nepal’s mountains, and repairing trails as they go, as part of a shift by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) from emergency response to longer-term recovery after the 25 April earthquake.
“Over the last two months, we have fed nearly 2 million people in some of the…
Vanuatu has marked 100 days since Cyclone Pam devastated Vanuatu, killing at least 11 people and rendering tens of thousands homeless, reports ABC.
Sune Gudnitz, head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs' Pacific office, says in an interview with ABC's Radio Australia that the recovery is going well thanks to early…
Rome - Strong winds, heavy rains and floods resulting from Tropical Cyclone Pam have caused extensive damage to agriculture throughout Vanuatu, including the main food and export crops, livestock, and fisheries infrastructure, FAO said today.
According to initial rapid assessments that the Vanuatu government led in four provinces, the banana crop throu…
Wageningen, The Netherlands - On 13 and 14 March 2015, Vanuatu – a small Pacific country – has faced one of its most devastating natural disasters on record. Tropical cyclone Pam, of category 5, traversed the island archipelago with sustained winds of 330KM/hr, torrential rains and storm surge that have caused cataclysmic losses.
According to Ambassado…
Better preparing Solomon Islanders for future disasters, and building resilience, is an important part of recovery planning, the government has recognised.
Risk-resilient recovery planning is now an official function of the Ministry of Development Planning and Aid Coordination (MDPAC), which last month formally integrated a disaster Recovery Coordinati…