UNITED NATIONS:  The UN has urged Pacific island nations to prepare now for a looming El Nino emergency which could affect more than 4 million people, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters here Tuesday.

The UN resident coordinator in Fiji, Osnat Lubrani, said that there are suggestions that this El Nino could be as severe as the event in the late 1990s which was the worst on record and brought severe drought to Papua New Guinea and Fiji, Dujarric said at a daily news briefing here.

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