Posted at 03:29 on 21 May, 2013 UTC

Residents of Santa Cruz island in the Solomon Islands province hit by earthquakes and a tsunami in February have been forced to return to their flattened coastal settlement.

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Posted at 08:42 on 07 May, 2013 UTC

A state of disaster has now been declared in the Marshall Islands as a prolonged severe drought in the far north islands worsens, putting lives at risk.

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Posted at 03:24 on 24 April, 2013 UTC

The total cost of last year’s Cyclone Evan for Fiji is estimated at 108 million US dollars, or about 2.6 percent of its Gross Domestic Product.

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Posted at 22:39 on 03 April, 2013 UTC

The residents of the northern Marshall Islands have been facing drought conditions since the end of last year, and the Mayor of Wotje Atoll is now appealing to the national government for help.

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Posted at 01:15 on 07 February, 2013 UTC

The first assessment team to arrive on the island hit by yesterday’s tsunami in Solomon Islands has landed by way of helicopter and it’s hoped the airport runway will be clear by tomorrow.

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Posted at 22:45 on 20 January, 2013 UTC

Fiji’s National Disaster Management Office says it wasn’t able to rebuild all the schools severely damaged by tropical cyclone Evan in time for the start of the school year today.

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Posted at 21:40 on 07 January, 2013 UTC

The Solomon Islands National Disaster Management Office says people on the island of Makira which bore the brunt of Cyclone Freda will run out of food if relief supplies don’t arrive soon.

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Posted at 03:17 on 04 January, 2013 UTC

The Solomon Islands National Disaster Management Office is sending a water purification unit to the capital of the island hardest hit by Cyclone Freda so the hospital can remain open.

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Posted at 22:34 on 30 December, 2012 UTC

Emergency services in Solomon Islands will today fly over the main islands to assess the damage caused by tropical cyclone Freda.

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