Postcards: One year after volcanic blast, many of Tonga’s reefs lay silent
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Year in Review: 12 pictures that captured key moments in 2022
As part of our Year in Review, we take a look at how photographers captured some of the key moments of 2022…
Snapshot: St Michael’s Church, Tonga
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Sight-Seeing: When justice becomes personal
Rev STEVE WOODS, a church relationship manager with Baptist World Aid Australia, reflects on how, once he saw this broken world through the lens of God’s call to justice, he can longer be a spectator…
Tonga reconnects to world as submarine cable restored after tsunami
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Tonga was reconnected to the world on Tuesday following repairs to a submarine cable, officials said, a month after a volcanic eruption and tsunami cut communications to the remote Pacific island nation. “People on the main island will have access almost immediately,” Tonga Cable chief executive James Panuve told Reuters by telephone, after […]
Tonga goes into lockdown; COVID cases not at international aid port – official
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Two COVID-19 cases in wharf workers in tsunami-hit Tonga were at a different wharf to that used by foreign naval ships delivering aid, a Tongan official said, as the previously virus-free nation prepares to go into lockdown on Wednesday to stop infections. There have been fears an influx of international ships and planes […]
Essay: Four things tsunami-vulnerable countries must do to prepare for the next disaster
In an article first published on The Conversation, RAVINDRA JAYARATNE, a researcher in coastal defences, outlines how vulnerable nations can mitigate the impacts of tsunamis…
China, West rush tsunami relief supplies to tsunami-hit Tonga
Wellington, New ZealandReuters Chinese naval vessels carrying aid are set to arrive in Tonga on Thursday as Beijing shored up its disaster response efforts in the tsunami-hit Pacific nation following a coordinated response by its Western rivals. A navy vessel carrying drinking water and food will arrive from Fiji on Thursday, while two military aircraft […]
COVID cases reported on Australian aid vessel sailing to virus-free Tonga
Reuters About two dozen cases of COVID-19 have been recorded among the crew of an Australian warship expected to arrive in coronavirus-free Tonga on Wednesday to deliver humanitarian aid, Australian authorities said on Tuesday. Tonga, hit by a massive volcanic eruption and a tsunami on 15th January, has asked for aid to be delivered without human […]
Tonga struggles with ash, psychological trauma after eruption and tsunami
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Families have stopped children playing outside as Tonga struggles to deal with ash and the psychological fallout of last week’s volcanic eruption and tsunami, aid workers and residents said. Communication with the outside world remained difficult on Sunday, with few internet services, and outlying islands still cut off from the phone service. A […]