After three cyclones in 2023, the COVID economic downturn, and the collapse of national airline Air Vanuatu in May, tourism businesses are again hoping to recover. "You really couldn't throw much ...
Vanuatu sits in a seismically active area, and is susceptible to frequent large earthquakes and other natural disasters. "We had Covid, then we had three cyclones last year. So this is really the ...
Efforts to recover bodies of people trapped in collapsed buildings continues in the earthquake-hit Pacific nation of Vanuatu ...
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Search expands as rescue teams arrive in Vanuatu after earthquake
The official figure of 10 confirmed deaths and more than 200 people injured was likely to rise, officials said.
Earlier this month Vanuatu led a group of small island nations ... Visitor numbers dwindled during the coronavirus pandemic and had barely started to recover before three major cyclones in 2023 ...
However, the Easter Sunday attacks on churches and high-end hotels in 2019, followed by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, as well as the 2022 economic crisis, hit the country’s hospitality industry.
It said 210 injuries had been registered while 1,698 people have been temporarily displaced, citing Vanuatu disaster management officials. Mobile networks remained knocked out, making outside ...
A magnitude-6.1 earthquake rattled buildings on Vanuatu's main island early Sunday but did not appear to have caused major damage, five days after a more powerful quake wreaked havoc and killed 12 ...
As Vanuatu continues to grapple with the aftermath of a devastating 7.3 magnitude earthquake, the local community is coming together to rebuild and recover. Vanuatu Tourism Office Chief Executive ...