SUVA, Fiji: Aid agencies on Monday described conditions in cyclone-ravaged Vanuatu as among the most challenging they have ever faced with fears of disease rife, as the Pacific nation’s president said climate change was partly to blame for the devastation.

Relief flights have begun arriving in the battered capital Port Vila after Super Tropical Cyclone Pam tore through on Friday night packing wind gusts of up to 320 kilometers (200 miles) an hour.

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