PS KARAN RECEIVES FAREWELL COURTESY CALL
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Permanent Secretary, Office of the Prime Minister, Immigration and Sugar Industry and Acting Permanent Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Yogesh Karan today received a farewell courtesy call from the outgoing Head of Delegation for International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) Country Cluster Delegation In The Pacific, Ms. Kathryn Clarkson, as her 5 years term concludes this month.
During a meeting held at the Office of the Prime Minister, PS Karan thanked Ms. Clarkson for her leadership role in advancing the partnership between IFRC and Fiji.
On the aspects of IFRC’s role in Humanitarian support, PS Karan thanked IFRC and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for working collaboratively to mobilise assistance in communities affected by TC Yasa and TC Ana. The work undertaken by the Fiji Red Cross emergency response team in this regard was also acknowledged.
Destruction reported as Cyclone Yasa slams into Fiji
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Suva, 18 December 2020
Cyclone Yasa has slammed into Fiji, with initial reports showing extensive destruction across the island nation with tens of thousands of people affected.
Packing wind gusts of up to 345 km/h, the Category 5 storm is one of the strongest ever to ever hit any country in the Pacific.
Fiji Red Cross Society Director-General Ilisapeci Rokotunidau said: “We are very concerned for the safety of thousands of people who have experienced the brunt of this monster storm. Initial reports from volunteers are revealing destruction in Bua, a province on the island of Vanua Levu. The coastal areas of many islands have been impacted by storm surges and flooding at the height of the storm.
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Fiji Red Cross teams are working with the National Disaster Management Office and other agencies to fulfill the needs of those affected by TC Yasa.
Director-General Ilisapeci Rokotunidau says trained Red Cross volunteers who live within affected communities are providing assistance.
Volunteers are currently deployed to provide first aid and relief such as tarpaulins for shelter, hygiene kits, and safe water, backed by pre-positioned emergency supplies.
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Rokotunidau says the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies have released initial early emergency relief funds of over $198, 000 to provide urgent assistance.
Head of the IFRC Pacific office, Kathryn Clarkson says there is a full team of people supporting the Fiji Red Cross Society operations to look into the damage done by TC Yasa.
Super cyclone levels Fiji villages
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villages as it tore through Fiji, aid agencies said Friday, with one person
reported dead as rescue workers raced to the worst-hit communities in
isolated areas of Pacific island nation.
Yasa made landfall late Thursday as a top-of-the-scale Category Five
cyclone, lashing Fiji’s second-largest island, Vanua Levu, with wind gusts of
up to 345 kilometres an hour (210 miles an hour).
The storm triggered floods, landslides and blackouts before moving out to
sea early Friday, where it rapidly weakened to a Category Three system.
Zalim Hussein of Savusavu, a small town of a few thousand people on Vanua
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