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The New Zealand Red Cross is sending an emergency response team to the Republic of the Marshall Islands to assist with a potential humanitarian crisis caused by drought. The team of three aid workers and 348kg of equipment were to reach the island ...

A women's group in the Marshall Islands capital is organising activities to help women on northern outer islands and atolls, affected by the severe drought. With no significant rain for up to eight months, a state of disaster is now in place. A ...

Nasa photographer John Grant has captured a strange sight above the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. The odd blue clouds look like a unique aurora hanging in the sky - and at first glance it's easy to think it could be evidence of a UFO, or some ...

MAJURO, Marshall Islands: A drought has left areas of the Marshall Islands facing "dire" water shortages with aid agencies scrambling to ship relief to affected communities, officials in the Pacific nation said Wednesday. With almost no rainfall ...

Many elderly people and children in the Marshall Islands north are suffering from severe diarrhoea, fever, hepatitis and other water borne illnesses as a result of a severe drought. The government's National Water Advisor, Tom Vance, says he visited ...

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The International Organization for Migration has raised the alarm bells over the protracted drought crisis in the Marshall Islands. he International Organization for Migration has raised the alarm bells over the protracted drought crisis in the ...

Full relief not expected until July, weather officials predict MAJURO, Marshall Islands (Marianas Variety, May 6, 2013) As aid agencies rush funding and water-making equipment to the drought-stricken Marshall Islands, Guam-based U.S. weather ...