Cyclone Freddy has claimed at least 400 lives – news Urix – Foreign news and documentaries

Tropical cyclone Freddy is the longest-lasting storm of its kind recorded in the world, according to the Meteorological Institute. The storm has been ravaging the southern part of the world for over a month. He was first recorded off the coast of Indonesia and Western Australia. It then moved thousands of miles west, hitting Madagascar and Mozambique for the first time in mid-February. The cyclone then made a circuit before hitting the African coast again last weekend. The aerial view shows the devastation after the cyclone in Mozambique. Photo: ESA ALEXANDER / Reuters The cyclone has unleashed mudslides and mudslides in several places. In Mozambique, several villages are isolated. Half a million have been affected The UN emergency aid office says that half a million people need humanitarian aid. There are overflights in several places and the risk of spreading infectious diseases is high. People have lost family, homes, crops and livestock. A boy holds his bicycle over his head as he walks across the water bodies in Muloza, Malawi. Photo: ESA ALEXANDER / Reuters Have been hit before – The same areas, and the same people, have lost everything in two cyclones in 2022. They are again experiencing the effects of climate change on the body in the worst possible way, says the country director in Malawi for Church Aid in Malawi, Håvard Hovdhaugen. In Chimwankhunda, locals watch as the army collects the dead after the cyclone. Photo: ESA ALEXANDER / Reuters It is in southern Malawi that the nauda are now the largest. Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera has declared 14 days of national mourning. He has also promised NOK 15 million in emergency aid to those who have been hurt. Chakwera has asked the world community for help. Residents of a village in Mtauchira, Malawi look at the devastation after the landslide. Photo: ESA ALEXANDER / Reuters – Climate change is real, and what we see is devastation. Thirteen months, three devastating cyclones. We are trying our best to roll up our sleeves in the face of a ridiculously large task, the president told Al Jazeera. The army is helping to find casualties in the wake of Tropical Cyclone Freddy in Blantyre, Malawi. Photo: ESA ALEXANDER / Reuters



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