Through collaborations with communities, Mercy Corps is supporting locally led disaster preparedness in the wake of the 2004 ...

The tsunami waves ... But it was Aceh, Indonesia – a province already blighted by decades of civil war – that was hardest hit, particularly the capital Banda Aceh, where waves of up to 20-30m ...

GRAPHIC CONTENT: Chief Herald photographer Nick Moir flew into Banda Aceh the day after the Boxing Day tsunami. He found a city turned upside down, bodies lying in the streets – and a sense of ...

CNA visits the Indonesian province for an insight into how survivors are rebuilding their lives 20 years after one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history.

But the waves, possibly 30 metres high as they crashed into Banda Aceh, also led to peace after almost 30 years of war. Before the tsunami, more than 15,000 people, including civilians ...

three-minute siren, grave visits and mass prayers across Aceh on Thursday marked the 20 th anniversary of the 2004 earthquake and tsunami disaster ... mosque in Banda Aceh were thousands of ...

An Acehnese man among the ruins in Banda Aceh, on January 13, 2005, weeks after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami [File: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP] The pain is still fresh as Cut Sylvia recalls the last time ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia-Traumatised by the Indian Ocean tsunami that hit Indonesia 20 years ... in 2018 unleashed by a 7.5-magnitude quake after sirens did not go off in warning.