NDMO Director Vasiti Soko said the planning team was working with other agencies to co-ordinate response plans.

It said government is directly working with the NDMO to co-ordinate response efforts, and that aid agencies were working through this system.

That posed a challenge to forming a co-ordinated response to the fires.

Obviously it would also help if these authorities worked together to give a co-ordinated response.

It added that a co-ordinated response was essential to reverse the international spread of Ebola.

But he said there was a co-ordinated response by the government and other countries to help.

Four other friends were successfully rescued from the riptide, after a co-ordinated response from the Mozambique Navy.

Oxfam says it will liase with local partner the Tonga National Youth Congress for an appropriate and co-ordinated response.

Kausea Natano called for multi-lateral support saying stimulating development in the Pacific will require a co-ordinated response with cross-border solutions.

This was a life-threatening situation that people had little experience of and it required considered advice and a co-ordinated response.

King made comparisons with the Libor fine against Barclays, where there was a co-ordinated response by a number of regulators.

Mr Bainimarama said a co-ordinated response was needed, and urged international NGOs to work with authorities to avoid waste and duplication.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said weather had hampered fodder drops, and state and federal agencies were now working on a co-ordinated response.

Representatives of nine countries met at a summit in Paris to formulate a co-ordinated response to the threat of an atrocity.

The European Commission has joined the war on cyber-crime, creating a new EU Cybersecurity Agency to co-ordinate responses to and prevent cyber attacks.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the government was making sure there was a co-ordinated response to any damage as a result of Cyclone Gita.