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11 Dec 2012

Niue (New Zealand) + 1 other
Protecting Niue’s school children

Report
— Australian Agency for International Development

January 2004 saw the worst cyclone in Niue’s history devastate the small island nation. Natural ecosystems and buildings alike were swept away by up to 296 kilometre per hour winds and waves reaching up to 50 metres high. Cyclone Heta was proof of Niue’s vulnerability to extreme weather conditions. It was also an important lesson for the country on planning ahead for natural disasters to secure the future of its people.

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27 Apr 2012

Niue (New Zealand)
Niue hopes dengue outbreak has peaked with 47 cases

Report
— Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Niue's department of health has reported its first outbreak of dengue fever in twenty years.

Manila Nosa, Acting Director of Health hopes the outbreak has now peaked at the 47 reported cases.

Presenter:Geraldine Coutts

Speaker:Manila Nosa, Acting Director of Health, Niue

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30 Jun 2010

Niue (New Zealand)
Niue: Location Map (2010)

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06 Jul 2007

Niue (New Zealand)
Niue: Location Map

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01 Nov 2004

Niue (New Zealand)
NZ offers Niue 20 million dollar aid

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— Xinhua
CANBERRA, Nov 1, 2004 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark has moved to strengthen links with Niue during a two-day state visit to the tiny Pacific island state with a promise of 20 million dollars (14 million US dollars) of investment.
Clark and her Niuean counterpart, Young Vivian, signed an agreement Monday on the New Zealand investment over the next five years, according to Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio.

The money will be used for rebuilding the island's hospital at Kaimiti, which was damaged by Cyclone Heta in

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27 Apr 2004

Niue (New Zealand)
Niue: World's tiniest island state takes big steps post cyclone

Report
— UN Development Programme
Niue Government and international community use storm aftermath to bolster aid coordination
27 April, Wellington, New Zealand - For the first time, aid agencies involved in the rebuilding of the world's smallest island nation after Cyclone Heta's recent devastation, will meet in New Zealand to discuss improved methods of co-ordinating and managing their aid for Niue. The unprecedented donor meeting is an opportunity to examine cyclone diaster as a longer-term planning opportunity.

Niue Premier Young Vivian says "this

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09 Mar 2004

Niue (New Zealand)
Niue agriculture gets $700,000 UN boost

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— East-West Center
ALOFI, Niue (Niue News, Mar. 4) - Niue agriculture stands to benefit from irrigation projects sponsored by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization.
The FAO will says it will pay the US$700,000 cost of irrigation equipment and four advisers being sent to Niue in the coming months.

News of the FAO's contribution emerged in Bangkok last week when Niue Premier, Young Vivian, and Niue's High Commissioner to New Zealand, Hima Takelesi, attended a regional conference of the FAO, the Asian Development Bank and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission

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04 Feb 2004

Niue (New Zealand)
Update on situation in Niue 4 Feb 2004

Report
— Caritas
Caritas Australia, as part of the regional Caritas Oceania network, will provide funding for a food distribution to the people of Niue.
While governments from several countries, including Australia, are addressing the large scale damage that was sustained to infrastructure, the Government of Niue has called on Caritas to assist with food relief. Cyclone Heta destroyed food crops and gardens. It will take months for new food crops to grow.

Caritas will provide trauma counselling for those who seek it, particularly relatives of the dead. Trauma counsellors

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22 Jan 2004

Niue (New Zealand)
Tropical Cyclone Heta: NZ gives $5 million to help rebuild Niue

Report
— Government of New Zealand
Hon Phil Goff

New Zealand will provide $5 million for reconstruction work on Niue, Foreign Minister Phil Goff and Aid Minister Marian Hobbs said today.

"The emergency relief phase following Cyclone Heta is now nearly over and we need to think about how we can help set Niue back on its feet in the longer term," the Ministers said.

"The $5 million will come from the New Zealand Agency for International Development (NZAID). Its exact use will depend on a needs assessment currently being carried out by the Niue

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22 Jan 2004

Niue (New Zealand)
Niue: Premier proud of Cyclone response

Report
— Australian Broadcasting Corporation
It's just two weeks since a 300-kilometre-per-hour Cyclone, Heta, devastated Niue. And Premier, Young Vivian, says they have already completed the first phase of tidying up and are about to start phase two with the arrival of 40 construction workers from Tahiti. The Premier says he is very proud of how well Niueans have responded to the crisis.

Presenter/Interviewer: Geraldine Coutts

Speakers: Young Vivian, Premier of Niue

VIVIAN: "Well I'm really surprised with my people, the spirit in which they have carried out the

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21 Jan 2004

Niue (New Zealand)
Australian Red Cross health team deployed to Niue

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— Australian Red Cross
Australian Red Cross is sending a health team to the tiny island of Niue to help provide clinical care to the population which is still reeling after Cyclone Heta devastated the coral atoll on January 7, 2004.
Dr Siobhan Bourke (VIC) and Registered Nurse David Overlack (QLD) have been dispatched to the island on a one-month humanitarian mission to work alongside the existing health services in Niue.

The two Australian Red Cross delegates, funded by AusAID, will work with health staff in Niue's temporary hospital

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20 Jan 2004

Niue (New Zealand)
Niue recovery at $23 million, Alofi to be relocated

Report
— East-West Center
ALOFI, Niue (Niue News Jan. 20) - It has been estimated that Niue's rebuilding program will cost around NZ$35million (US$23 million) over a five year period in the wake of the worst storm to hit in the country's history.

Cash strapped Niue, with a population of 1,300, will be dependent on New Zealand assistance, Australian Aid and European Union capital.

The Niue government has decided to re-locate the capitol, Alofi - homes, businesses, the hospital and the Hotel Niue to the upper plateau around Fonuakula.

Alofi South, from the main road intersection

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19 Jan 2004

Niue (New Zealand)
Niue - Tropical Cyclone Heta OCHA Situation Report No. 3

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— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Ref: OCHA/GVA - 2004/0008
OCHA Situation Report No. 3
Niue - Tropical Cyclone Heta
Occurred on 5-6 January 2004

The New Zealand-led assessment team provided the following information, through the OCHA Regional Disaster Response Advisor in Suva, Fiji.

Situation and Damage

1. The 100 families that were made homeless by Cyclone Heta on 5 January, continue to be housed with friends and family. The people of Niue are under considerable stress and the government is providing counselling services as a matter of priority.

2. Some 80% of the international phone

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16 Jan 2004

Niue (New Zealand)
Niue to "import" citizens from Tuvalu

Report
— Xinhua
WELLINGTON, Jan 16, 2004 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Niuean Premier Young Vivian said that he planned to "import" people from Tuvalu to boost Niue' s tiny population.

Fewer than 1700 people remain on the cyclone-ravaged Niue, a tiny Pacific island nation. And some fear numbers may fall to unsustainable levels if families unable to rebuild from Cyclone Heta which hit the island last week, are forced to leave.

Vivian confirmed that he held resettlement discussions in October with the Tuvaluan Cabinet, which has supported his

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13 Jan 2004

Niue (New Zealand) + 2 others
Cyclone Heta; Initial lessons learnt

Report
— South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission
Russell Howorth, Acting Director, South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC)
In the aftermath of any natural event that has caused significant damage, it is important to carry out a "lessons learnt exercise". SOPAC as the regional organization vested by the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders, with the responsibility for disaster management, is as part of fulfilling that responsibility, about to commence such an exercise for tropical cyclone Heta.

From the information to hand at this time, when disaster response and recovery is still underway in many impacted

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12 Jan 2004

Niue (New Zealand)
NZ questions future of Niue following cyclone

Report
— Australian Broadcasting Corporation
New Zealand has warned the future of Niue is at stake if many of its residents choose to leave the cyclone damaged Pacific island.

Our New Zealand correspondent, Gillian Bradford, says many locals have decided not to rebuild on the shattered island.

Niue has a population of just 1600 people, with 200 of those left homeless after Cyclone Heta.

Many others have had their businesses destroyed.

New Zealand's Foreign Affairs Minister, Phil Goff, says the cyclone will cause some people to leave the island - at least in the short term.

"A point could be reached where

Australian Broadcasting Corporation:

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12 Jan 2004

Niue (New Zealand)
Niue - Tropical Cyclone Heta OCHA Situation Report No. 2

Report
— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Ref: OCHA/GVA - 2004/0006
OCHA Situation Report No. 2
Niue - Tropical Cyclone Heta
Occurred on 5-6 January 2004

The New Zealand-led assessment team provided the following information.

Situation and Damage

1. Cyclone Heta, which struck the Island of Niue to the North-East of New Zealand on 5 January 2004, caused severe damage to the West Coast of the island and in particular the Capital Alofi and the villages of Makefu, Tuapa, Namukulu and Hikutavake on the northwestern side of the island. Alofi, with a population of about 400 to 500,

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12 Jan 2004

Niue (New Zealand)
Third NZ relief flight bound for Niue tomorrow

Report
— Government of New Zealand
Hon Phil Goff

Urgently-needed skills and supplies will be included in the third RNZAF C-130 relief flight bound for Niue tomorrow, Foreign Minister Phil Goff said today.

Mr Goff, Niue Premier Young Vivian and Australian High Commissioner to New Zealand Dr Alan Hawke will travel on the flight, which leaves from Whenuapai airbase early tomorrow. It will carry asbestos-handling equipment, chainsaws, water supply equipment, and food.

"The passenger list includes several tradespersons with skills needed to help with the clean-up and restoration

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11 Jan 2004

Niue (New Zealand)
Pacific: Asbestos clean-up equipment bound for Niue

Report
— Government of New Zealand
Special equipment will be sent to Niue this week to clean up asbestos roofing fragments amongst the rubble of buildings destroyed by Cyclone Heta, Foreign Minister Phil Goff said today.

Respirators, overalls and sealable bags will be included in cargo going to the island on an RNZAF Hercules flight planned for Tuesday. The equipment will be used by a clean-up team of around 80 islanders, who will be trained on safe procedures for collecting the smashed roofing sheets, Mr Goff said.

"New Zealand and Australian experts

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09 Jan 2004

Niue (New Zealand) + 2 others
APCEDI Cyclone Heta Alert No. 12

Report
— Asia-Pacific Centre for Emergency and Development Information
Alert #12 / 09 January 2004, Sydney 11:00 EDT
Super Cyclone Heta is now a large extratropical rain storm in the Southern Ocean to fortunately be a further menace only to penguins, seals and whales.

Situation in Niue

As media and photographic reports are illustrating, Niue has received severe to catastrophic damage across the island. This is a result of being hit by the eyewall when it was a strong Category 4 (possibly weak Category 5) Super Cyclone. Niue was the only island that actually was hit by the eyewall during the entire storm. The

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