Cyclone Pam Destruction

The monster cyclone that hit Vanuatu earlier this month wiped out more than 90 percent of the archipelago's crops, putting its people at risk of a secondary emergency and long-term food insecurity, the United Nations warned today.

Celine Jimmy prayed three times before running out of a clubhouse into the darkness to a family home as Cyclone Pam roared through her village in Vanuatu, her four children close by her side.

More than half of the South Pacific island nation Vanuatu's population has been affected by Cyclone Pam, the UN said today as the death toll rose to 16.

Nearly 400 people left homeless by a cyclone that battered the tiny Pacific nation of Vanuatu said today they are not getting enough emergency aid a week on from the monster storm.

Residents of the southern Vanuatu island of Tanna said they were running out of food and basic supplies today, after a huge cyclone tore across the South Pacific nation wreaking widespread devastation but not the heavy death toll initially feared.

Despite ominous predictions of mass devastation in cyclone-wrecked Vanuatu, policymakers at a UN disaster meeting in Japan do not seem to understand the pressing need to tackle climate change, the World Bank warned today.

The first shipments of aid headed for Vanuatu on Sunday as authorities declared a state of emergency and global relief agencies geared up after a powerful cyclone tore through the vulnerable Pacific island nation.

The monster cyclone that hit Vanuatu earlier this month wiped out more than 90 percent of the archipelago's crops, putting its people at risk of a secondary emergency and long-term food insecurity, the United Nations warned today.

Celine Jimmy prayed three times before running out of a clubhouse into the darkness to a family home as Cyclone Pam roared through her village in Vanuatu, her four children close by her side.

More than half of the South Pacific island nation Vanuatu's population has been affected by Cyclone Pam, the UN said today as the death toll rose to 16.

Nearly 400 people left homeless by a cyclone that battered the tiny Pacific nation of Vanuatu said today they are not getting enough emergency aid a week on from the monster storm.

Residents of the southern Vanuatu island of Tanna said they were running out of food and basic supplies today, after a huge cyclone tore across the South Pacific nation wreaking widespread devastation but not the heavy death toll initially feared.

Despite ominous predictions of mass devastation in cyclone-wrecked Vanuatu, policymakers at a UN disaster meeting in Japan do not seem to understand the pressing need to tackle climate change, the World Bank warned today.

The first shipments of aid headed for Vanuatu on Sunday as authorities declared a state of emergency and global relief agencies geared up after a powerful cyclone tore through the vulnerable Pacific island nation.