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Flood hits Sepik Hundreds homeless and facing starvation MORE than 50 families from the Sepik Plains in Yangoru, East Sepik province were left homeless with no food and safe drinking water after a flood swept through their villages, knocking down houses and destroying properties including food gardens and livestock.

Water woes... In any other circumstances, Margaret Manso and her children at Inawabui village in Mekeo, Central province would be really blessed to have access to water through this manual pumping system installed in their village. But ironically, the same water is the source of a high health risk due to poison from pollutants discharged by the Tolukuma gold mine in the Goilala ranges into the local river systems. Local chiefs and villagers learnt last weekend that boiling the water to consume is not a solution.– Photo by JONATHAN WAISELE Enlarge image
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