International Organisation for Migration.FSM

Fears El Niño could hamper FSM's typhoon recovery

The category five system tore through the states of Yap and Chuuk in March, killing five people, contaminating water supplies and wiping out crops.

Stuart Simpson says the IOM and the government has spent the past six months trying to restore crops on islands that bore a direct hit from Maysak, and these are only starting to produce food.

However, he says an El Niño that is predicted to be one of the worst in decades could bring a drought that will bring them back to step one, and they need to be prepared.