Oxfam: Vanuatu cyclone damaged up to 90% of capital's houses
Arab Today
The super cyclone that hit the Pacific island of Vanuatu damaged up to 90 percent of houses in the capital Port Vila, with entire communities "blown away", aid agency Oxfam said Sunday.
"This is likely to be one of the worst disasters ever seen in the Pacific, the scale of humanitarian need will be enormous... entire communities have been blown away," Oxfam's Vanuatu director Colin Collet van Rooyen said.
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