Kolhufushi

Kolhufushi is one of the inhabited islands of Meemu Atoll. The island was significantly suffering from the 2004 tsunami, despite the fact that coral reefs took a number of the impact. The island's chief, Mr. Sigee, described the water as accomplishing his chin. Two weeks after the catastrophe, the island's populace became found to have lost as a minimum 16 people, and the island's mango and banana timber had been poisoned by using the saltwater. Some homes and a century-antique mosque had also been destroyed. Most of the opposite homes have been incorrect for habitation, leaving simplest a handful of useful homes.

By mid-January 2005, 8% of the 13,000-sturdy displaced Maldivian population was housed in transient shelters on Kolhufushi. The construction of 55 substitute homes changed into began in October 2008, and a in addition 168 homes had been started in 2010. Tsunami drills had been introduced on the island in 2018. A tsunami warning in 2016 had exposed a lack of preparedness, for coping with safe evacuation. The construction of Kolhufushi's harbour became reduced in size in January 2016, and became finished the subsequent 12 months. The harbour became inaugurated in 2018.