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A fair trade chocolate maker in Vanuatu is very worried about the cocoa farmers on the islands, whose crops were all extensively damaged in Cyclone Pam.
Topics: food-processing, fruit, cyclones, storm-disaster, sydney-2000, vanuatu
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Topics: storm-disaster, non-governmental-organisations, food-processing, sydney-2000, vanuatu
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Cocoa growers face an uncertain future after Cyclone Pam damaged trees. Their newly established market with chocolate maker will take two years to rebuild
Topics: relief-and-aid-organisations, fruit, international-aid-and-trade, vanuatu
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Topics: storm-disaster, non-governmental-organisations, food-processing, sydney-2000, vanuatu
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Topics: storm-disaster, non-governmental-organisations, sydney-2000, vanuatu
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| UpdatedAs further news of the damage from Tropical Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu gradually trickles in, 10 expats from Epi Island are still waiting to hear from their families.
Topics: climate-change, cyclone, cyclones, vanuatu
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| UpdatedAustralia sends the Navy's heavy landing ship HMAS Tobruk to Vanuatu, to help with the rescue efforts after Tropical Cyclone Pam tore through the Pacific archipelago with devastating force.
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| UpdatedThe family of Canberra woman Zoe Marshall says the teenager has been spotted alive and well on a remote island in cyclone-hit Vanuatu.
Topics: missing-person, weather, charities-and-community-organisations, foreign-affairs, vanuatu, canberra-2600, act
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| UpdatedThe destruction caused by Tropical Cyclone Pam this week across the Pacific highlights how communities go about recovering after a disaster.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, storm-disaster, cyclone, weather, emergency-incidents, emergency-planning, fires, cyclones, vanuatu, philippines, japan, australia, asia, pacific, vic
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The mother of Canberra teenager Zoe Marshall who is missing in Vanuatu says she is devastated her daughter has not been evacuated yet from the cyclone-ravaged country.
Topics: cyclones, human-interest, vanuatu, australia, act, canberra-2600
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Vanuatu hits out at aid groups over a lack of coordination that it says has resulted in "precious time" being wasted as the country grapples with the aftermath of Cyclone Pam.
Topics: cyclones, disasters-and-accidents, relief-and-aid-organisations, government-and-politics, vanuatu, pacific, australia
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| UpdatedAustralian officials locate five international volunteers who went missing in Vanuatu after Cyclone Pam, but continue search for 14 others.
Topics: missing-person, cyclone, vanuatu, pacific, australia
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| UpdatedClimate change exacerbated the damage caused by Cyclone Pam, which left a trail of destruction across Vanuatu, Australia's Climate Council says.
Topics: climate-change, cyclone, cyclones, vanuatu, australia, pacific
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Topics: cyclone, international-aid-and-trade, doctors-and-medical-professionals, vanuatu
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| UpdatedA team of 20 Australian medical staff to start treating people injured by Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu's capital of Port Vila today.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, cyclones, emergency-planning, emergency-incidents, relief-and-aid-organisations, vanuatu, solomon-islands, kiribati, tuvalu, pacific, australia
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Emergency aid begins to reach some of the outlying islands of Vanuatu, after the Pacific archipelago was last week pummelled by one of the strongest cyclones on record.
Topics: cyclones, emergency-planning, emergency-incidents, relief-and-aid-organisations, disasters-and-accidents, vanuatu, pacific, australia, tuvalu, kiribati, solomon-islands
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| UpdatedThe father of a Canberra girl missing in cyclone devastated Vanuatu is optimistic she is alive and helping rebuild the remote village where she is working.
Topics: act, canberra-2600, vanuatu
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| UpdatedA team of 20 medical staff from the Northern Territory and Victoria leave Darwin bound for cyclone-hit Vanuatu.
Topics: cyclones, government-and-politics, darwin-0800, nt, australia, vic, vanuatu
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As aid agencies reach the more remote islands hit hard by Cyclone Pam, the full extent of the devastation in Vanuatu is becoming clear.
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| UpdatedVanuatu warns it faces imminent food shortages as accounts emerge of huge damage to a large outer island, days after one of the fiercest cyclones on record pummelled the Pacific archipelago.
Topics: cyclones, emergency-planning, emergency-incidents, relief-and-aid-organisations, disasters-and-accidents, vanuatu, pacific, australia, tuvalu, kiribati, solomon-islands
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Australia's national charity regulator warns the public to beware of scammers when donating to Cyclone Pam relief funds after reports of sham collectors in shopping centres and going door-to-door.
Topics: charities, charities-and-community-organisations, community-and-society, relief-and-aid-organisations, disasters-and-accidents, law-crime-and-justice, australia, vanuatu
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Tony Bartlett with Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research says Vanuatu's fishing industry will be hard hit. read more
Topics: storm-disaster, fishing-aquaculture, forestry, sydney-2000, vanuatu
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Topics: forestry, relief-and-aid-organisations, sydney-2000, vanuatu
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Topics: forestry, relief-and-aid-organisations, sydney-2000, vanuatu