A warehouse in Vanuatu’s capital, Port Vila, holds 10 huge shipping containers filled to the brim with discarded goods and rotting food. This is what’s left of the massive piles of donations sent to...
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Aid reform in the Pacific held up by power, purse strings, and trust
After learning hard lessons, Pacific Island states are exerting greater control when disasters strike. But is the aid sector prepared to change? Furious winds shredded entire villages, stripping off...
Indonesia + 5 more
El Nino brings drought, hunger to Indonesia and South Pacific
KETUNG MIRI VILLAGE, Indonesia , 22 October 2015 (IRIN) - Rice is so central to life in this tiny mountain village in Indonesia that Ngadimin uses the harvests as his calendar. The weathered farmer...
Back to the future in cyclone-struck Vanuatu
TANNA, Vanuatu, 6 August 2015 (IRIN) - When Cyclone Pam bore down on Vanuatu in March, many modern buildings in the Pacific Island nation were completely destroyed. But Charlie Kalah’s hut made of...
World + 1 more
Il est temps de réparer le disque rayé de l’industrie humanitaire
DUBAÏ, 3 juillet 2015 (IRIN) - Un nouveau rapport analysant l’intervention humanitaire qui a suivi le passage du cyclone Pam accuse une fois de plus les agences d’aide humanitaire internationales de...
World + 3 more
Bringing drones down to earth
By Caterina Pino and Obinna Anyadike KATHMANDU, 12 May 2015 (IRIN) - Disaster coverage now seems incomplete without amazing drone footage of the damage, accompanied by effusive media reports on the...
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Drones and crisis mapping - digital aid in Vanuatu
NAIROBI, 14 April 2015 (IRIN) - The cyclone-hit Pacific islands of Vanuatu are the latest proving ground for new information technology and the digital humanitarian volunteers that are now an...
Vanuatu reeling from impact of cyclone Pam
NAIROBI, 14 March 2015 (IRIN) - The closure of the main airport in Vanuatu is hampering the humanitarian response to cyclone Pam, which tore through the Pacific island archipelago yesterday, causing...
Cyclone Pam batters Vanuatu
NAIROBI, 13 March 2015 (IRIN) - As cyclone Pam, a category 5 storm, makes landfall today on the pacific island of Vanuatu, humanitarian workers there say the urban poor are especially at risk. High...
Indonesia + 12 more
Nouvelle évaluation de l'OMS suite à une étude sur le traitement du pian
BANGKOK, 18 janvier 2012 (IRIN) - Les conclusions qui indiquent que le pian, une maladie tropicale négligée, peut être traité avec une efficacité identique par une dose unique d'antibiotiques...
World + 13 more
Yaws treatment study prompts WHO review
BANGKOK, 11 January 2012 (IRIN) - Findings that a one-time oral treatment to cure yaws, a neglected tropical disease, is as effective as the currently recommended penicillin injection have prompted...
World + 6 more
Catastrophes : Un nouvel indice de risque aide à évaluer la vulnérabilité
JOHANNESBURG, 6 septembre 2011 (IRIN) - Un nouvel indice de risque de catastrophe lancé par l'Institut pour l'environnement et la sécurité humaine de l'Université des Nations Unies pourrait aider les...
Bangladesh + 21 more
Global: Not much money to help many poor adapt
JOHANNESBURG, 6 December 2009 (IRIN) - Money to help the world's 49 Least Developed Countries (LDCs) - the poorest and most vulnerable - cope with the impact of climate change will be in the...