Eruption threat means all 11000 people of Ambae in the Pacific need to leave – and with sparse official help,they are getting off any way they canVanuatu is no stranger to the rumblings, shakings, and flood waters and wrecking winds of natural catastrophe. The south Pacific island nation was rated the most at-risk country in the world in a 2016 United Nations study. Its 83 islands are stuck moral in the middle of hurricane alley and they dot the border of the “ring of fire” – a belt around the Pacific prone to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
Despite their precarious situation being a day-to-day reality,the country has been galvanised by the prime minister Charlot Salwais order to evacuate the entire island of Ambae because of the threat that the volcano at its centre will blow. Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk