Fiji's second largest island of Vanua Levu has two more cases of Covid-19, bringing the island's total to three, after the first community case was earlier recorded there since the beginning of the current outbreak.
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How Debt and Climate Change Pose ‘Systemic Risk’ to World Economy Source: By Somini Sengupta, New York Times • Posted: Thursday, April 8, 2021
With dozens of countries struggling to manage both staggering debt and mounting climate disasters, some financial leaders are calling for green debt relief.
Families rescued by boat arrived near Beira, Mozambique, in March 2019 after Cyclone Idai caused widespread flooding.Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/Associated Press
How does a country deal with climate disasters when it’s drowning in debt? Not very well, it turns out. Especially not when a pandemic clobbers its economy.
Take Belize, Fiji and Mozambique. Vastly different countries, they are among dozens of nations at the crossroads of two mounting global crises that are drawing the attention of international financial institutions: climate change and debt.
The Satellite Operations Brigade’s Regional Satellite Support Center-Pacific supported humanitarian assistance and disaster relief efforts for Cyclone Yasa, which battered Fiji’s Vanua Levu Island, Dec. 17.
U.S. Embassy in Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu U.S. Ambassador to Fiji Joseph Cella announced on 15 Jan. 2021, approximately US$200,000 (FJD$406,394) in additional funding to support recovery efforts following the devastation caused by,
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