Planes, ships head for devastated Tonga as aid operation ramps up
PRAVEEN MENON and KIRSTY NEEDHAM THE first aid flights reached Tonga with more en route, five days after a devastating
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Water crisis looms as residents tackle debris in tsunami-hit Tonga
PRAVEEN MENON, KIRSTY NEEDHAM and TOM WESTBROOK TWO New Zealand navy vessels will arrive in Tonga on Friday carrying critical
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All homes on one of Tonga’s islands destroyed, three dead
KIRSTY NEEDHAM and PRAVEEN MENON ALL the homes on one of Tonga’s small outer islands have been destroyed by a
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Residents return to volcano-hit city
THE Democratic Republic of Congo will start a phased return of residents who fled Goma in the aftermath of a
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Fears grow for DRC’s lone children
JORDAN MAYENIKINI ABOUT 70 Congolese children who have been unable to find their families four days after a deadly volcanic
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Thousands flee Goma after DRC warns of possible new eruption
DJAFFAR Al KATANTY THOUSANDS of people scrambled to flee the Congolese city of Goma yesterday, some picking their way across
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DRC volcano leaves 20 000 homeless, 40 missing
DJAFFAR AL KATANTY MORE than 20,000 people are homeless and 40 still missing in the aftermath of a volcanic eruption
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Earthquake raise fears of second volcano eruption
AN earthquake measuring 5.3 magnitude rocked the borderlands between Rwanda and Congo this morning, the Rwandan Seismic Monitor said, raising
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DRC’s Goma hit by tremors after volcanic eruption
REPEATED tremors shook the Congolese city of Goma yesterday, unnerving families still reeling from a volcano eruption at the weekend
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DRC volcano leaves death and smoking wreckage
DJAFAR AL KATANTY A smoking trail of lava from a volcanic eruption covered hundreds of houses in eastern Congo yesterday,
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