The Secretary-General, accompanied by Madam Ban, departed Canberra for Honiara, Solomon Islands, that afternoon, arriving in the evening.

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Only resource-poor Malaita, and its itinerant elite in Honiara, are keen to keep the country as it is.

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In Honiara, the chief town in Guadalcanal, and the capital of the Solomons, the situation is dangerously different.

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Although I am not currently in Honiara I will have to return on Monday in order to get my flight to Brisbane.

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On Friday, a plane carrying Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo had to return to the capital, Honiara, because of concerns over runway damage, his spokesman said.

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The group from Malatia, which calls itself the Eagle Force, seized the prime minister, Bartholomew Ulufa'alu, but this week released him and promised to hand control of Honiara, the capital, over to the police.

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Journalists from the larger media organisations based in the Capital, Honiara, valued the reliable contacts they now have with trusted journalists from the provinces as well as their increased capacity to train their own journalists and media workers.

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Loti Yates, director of the national disaster management office in the Solomon capital Honiara, that the airport in Lata had been damaged by the tsunami and that logs and debris which had washed into the area by the wave were blocking the runway.

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