“The resources that we have in the ground are not enough”, Sione Hufanga explained, in an interview on Saturday with UN News. “We ought to always look at the situation and ask, have we done enough, for this very small country, isolated in the Pacific islands?”
The underwater volcano eruption of a week ago, is believed to be the largest volcanic event to occur for 30 years.
The huge, 20 km high mushroom cloud of smoke and ash, and the tsunami that followed, affected 84,000 people, more than 80 per cent of the population of the South Pacific country.