China has increased aid as part of its bid to become the foreign partner of choice for Pacific Island countries but is ...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - The World Bank ... contribute to Vanuatu’s fast recovery, restore jobs, and provide vital assistance ...

A week on from the powerful Pacific earthquake, Vanuatu’s capital Port Vila is a scene of “absolute carnage” and could ...

PORT VILA, December 24, 2024 – The World Bank has fast-tracked US$12 million to the Government of Vanuatu for emergency response and recovery, following a devastating 7.3 magnitude earthquake on ...

Port Vila businessman Michael Thompson told AFP ... registered while 1,698 people have been temporarily displaced, citing Vanuatu disaster management officials. Mobile networks remained knocked ...

The 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the main island on Tuesday, toppling concrete buildings in the capital Port Vila ... Vanuatu Business Resilience Council. “It’s important the world ...

Port Vila, encountering flattened buildings that had not yet been searched. Three days after the violent magnitude 7.3 quake struck just offshore from Vanuatu’s most populous island, uncertainty ...

Damage was concentrated in Port Vila’s downtown ... life in one of the world’s most natural disaster-prone countries. But analysts said the problems that afflicted Vanuatu before Tuesday ...

A search expanded on Thursday for those killed or trapped alive by an earthquake in the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, as ...

SJ Steffen called for ‘some actual info on what's happening in Vanuatu’ because people are being turned away at the Australian High Commission gate in Port Vila. Picture: Facebook Queenslander ...