In the trail of its double landfall, Cyclone Freddy has left a death toll of at least 522 people across Malawi, Mozambique and Madagascar and displaced tens of thousands. Hundreds still remain missing.
March 22, 2023, 8:43 AMChildren in Mulanje look on as a military helicopter carry doctors and medical supplies to Muloza on the border with Mozambique which are cut off after the tropical Cyclone Freddy outside Blantyre, Malawi, March 18, 2023.“Let me tell you, it is a serious situation. It is a tragedy,” says Paul Turnbull, Malawi Country Director of the World Food Programme., one of the deadliest and long-lived tropical cyclones to have ever been recorded in Southern Africa.
In Malawi -- which was worst hit by Cyclone Freddy as it experienced the equivalent of six months of rainfall in just six days -- President Lazarus Chakwera said almost half the nation had been damaged by Cyclone Freddy. This satellite image provide by the NASA Earth Observatory shows Cyclone Freddy between Mozambique, left, and Madagascar in the southern part of the Indian Ocean on Wednesday, March 8, 2023.Malawi’s Department of Disaster Management Affairs said in a statement that 553,614 people have been displaced in the Southern African nation with 543 camps set up nationwide to accommodate the displaced.
The death toll in Malawi is expected to rise as search, rescue and recovery operations continue in Malawi’s Nsanje and Phalombe districts.
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