Palefoou Ma’afu’s experience highlights the long road to recovery faced by many in Tonga in the more than two years since the Pacific island nation was devastated by tsunamis unleashed by one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions ever recorded. The 55-year-old’s island of Atata, home to around 100 people, was completely wiped out in...

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