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Indonesian authorities bar all foreign aid workers from disaster sites
This is despite President Joko Widodo’s appeal for international assistance after the powerful 7.5 magnitude quake.
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Gift of the Givers volunteers undeterred after 'quake shakes Palu
Residents were rudely awakened by the rupture on Tuesday morning causing aid workers to evacuate their rooms and tents and run for safety.
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5.2 magnitude tremor hits Indonesia’s Palu city
Volunteers travelling with NGO Gift of the Givers described to Eyewitness News how they woke up to urgently evacuate their rooms and tents and run for safety.
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#Indonesia: 'I almost got hit by a tree, car & house'
A 35-year-old resident who says she has been living in Balaroa since 1989 says she was sitting in her home with her eight-year-old son when the earthquake ripped through her home.
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Indonesian authorities set deadline to find thousands missing after quake
A team from South Africa led by NGO Gift of the Givers is in the city of Palu following a devastating 7.5 magnitude earthquake that has killed over 1,700 people.
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Restrictions placed on Gift of the Givers, other aid organisations in Indonesia
A team of South African volunteers has arrived in the city of Palu which is one of the worst affected after a devastating earthquake and subsequent tsunami.
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More bodies found as death toll from Indonesia quake nears 2,000
The death toll from the twin disaster on Sulawesi island that erased whole suburbs in Palu has reached 1,944, said local military spokesman M. Thohir.
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Gift of the Givers finally arrive at epicenter of Indonesia earthquake
The airport is also visibly damaged, with gaping holes where the ceiling once belonged, and rubble strewn in certain sections of the premises.
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Christians give thanks, mourn amid debris of Indonesian quake
Indonesia has the world’s biggest Muslim population but there are Christian communities throughout the archipelago.
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Indonesian army joins efforts to extract bodies after earthquake
Efforts to reconstruct and clear the rubble in the city of Palu remain stifled with international aid only expected to enter the area today since the airport re-opened.
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South African aid group arrives in Indonesia
The group sent by the Gift of the Givers is in Indonesia to assist with the international call for humanitarian aid after last week’s magnitude tremor and tsunami.
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Last-ditch search for survivors as Indonesia disaster toll tops 1,500
The city of Palu on Sulawesi island has been left in ruins after being hit by a 7.5 magnitude quake and a wall of water.
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Phones on, shops open in Indonesian quake city, but fate of thousands unknown
By Thursday, the official death toll stood at 1,424, but it is widely expected to rise as most of the dead accounted for have been from Palu.
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SA rescue team gear up for Indonesia disaster relief trip
Last Friday a 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck the west coast of the Sulawesi Island causing extensive soil liquefaction that turns ground into liquid, sinking buildings and pulling victims under.
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Gift of the Givers to send 2 teams to help quake-hit Indonesia
A devastating earthquake and tsunami have killed more than 1,000 people, with rescuers warning the death toll is likely to rise.
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Time running out in search for survivors of Indonesia's quake
The official death toll from the 7.5 magnitude quake that struck the west coast of the island of Sulawesi last Friday stood at 1,234, many killed by tsunami waves triggered by the quake.
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Gift of the Givers to send 2 aid teams to Indonesia following earthquake
The organisation will send a team of 15 South Africans while two other volunteers based abroad will meet the team on the ground in Indonesia.
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Indonesian rescuers hold hope for survivors as scale of disaster emerges
The number of confirmed deaths stood at 844 on Tuesday, most of them in Palu, the main city in the disaster zone, where rescuers were hunting for victims in the ruins.
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Quake-hit Indonesia starts burying dead in mass grave
Indonesia is no stranger to natural calamities and Jakarta had been keen to show it could deal with a catastrophe that has killed at least 844 people.
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[UPDATE] Death toll from Indonesian quake, tsunami reaches 420
Indonesian vice president Jusuf Kalla says the toll could climb based on previous disasters.
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No South Africans among Indonesia tsunami-quake victims
Dozens of people were reported to be still trapped in the rubble of a hotel and a mall in the city of Palu, which was hit by waves as high as six metres following the 7.5 magnitude earthquake.
