The government has allocated 10,000 Papua New Guinean kinas ($2,645) for relief assistance.Nearby Enga province has also experienced heavy flooding.Wapenamanda community leader Aquila Kunzie told RNZ Pacific the community was rationing its food supply.”Constant continuous rainfall in Wapenamanda district has caused rivers to flood,” Kunzie said.He added that more than 100 women and children had taken refuge in his village following nearby tribal warfare.”[We are eating] only one meal per day, we can’t afford breakfast and lunch with all of them,” he said.”We have no way to call out for help.”A New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade spokesperson told AFP it had not received a request for aid.”We will be in touch with our diplomatic post in Port Moresby for further detail, and will continue to monitor closely,” the spokesperson said on Tuesday.Papua New Guinea is ranked as the world’s 16th most at-risk country to climate change and natural hazards, according to the 2022 World Risk Index.
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