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PNG plans new home for islanders fleeing volcano, climate impacts

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Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Wed, 14 Oct 2015 06:46 GMT
Author: Catherine Wilson

MADANG, Papua New Guinea, Oct 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For 11 years, the people of Manam Island, a volcano rising out of the Bismarck Sea around 15 km off Papua New Guinea's north coast, have waited to be resettled after fleeing devastating eruptions in 2004.

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