The Commonwealth Malaria Report 2022
<p>The annual Commonwealth Malaria Report has revealed that the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted malaria services, leading to an increase in malaria incidence and mortality rates. Data from the report also
Vanuatu
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Evacuation for people from Vanuatu's volcanic Ambae island completed
The evacuation of people from Vanuatu's volcanic Ambae island to the islands of Maewo and Santo is now completed after the Vanuatu government asked Ambae's people to have a compulsory evacuation. According
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East Africa: Commonwealth Must Unite Behind Most Climate Vulnerable
This year's Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) was supposed to have been held in our home country of Vanuatu, deep in the South Pacific. Instead it will open this April in London, and
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For remote Vanuatu islanders, fleeing climate disasters is an uphill battle
Villagers in South River, a palm-fringed coastal community in the low-lying South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, are used to battling cyclones, floods and tsunamis but are now facing a new threat -
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Nations better shielded from disasters, Pacific most at risk- study
BONN, Germany (Reuters) - Many nations have become less vulnerable to natural disasters ranging from cyclones to earthquakes because of improved preparedness, but Pacific island states remain most at risk,
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Building climate resilience: Lessons and recommendations from a community-based adaptation project in Vanuatu
This report is drawn from the community-based adaptation and resilience work carried out from January 2016 to May 2017 in Vanuatu. The overall goal of the project was to increase the resilience of communities,
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Vanuatu in final evacuation of island threatened by volcano
SYDNEY (Reuters) - The last residents on Vanuatu’s northern island of Ambae will be evacuated on Wednesday, officials said, as a volcano that has been spitting rock and ash into the air for more than a
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Building resilience to natural disasters: an application to small developing states
This working paper presents a dynamic small open economy model to explore the macroeconomic impact of natural disasters. In addition to permanent damages to public and private capital, the disaster causes
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Thousands evacuated to emergency shelters as Vanuatu volcano threatens to erupt
SYDNEY (Reuters) - More than 6,000 people have been moved to emergency shelters on Vanuatu’s northern island Ambae in the South Pacific as a volcano threatens to erupt, officials said on Tuesday. The
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Quake of 6.8 magnitude strikes off Vanuatu in South Pacific: USGS
An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 struck north of the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said. The quake was recorded at a depth of 175 km (108