As at 28th March 2023,

Number of Deaths over 676
Injuries over 1,500
Reported missing over 538
Displaced over 510,244
Camps established over 534
Districts affected 12

A powerful tropical cyclone has hit one of the poorest regions of the world affecting Malawi 🇲🇼 in Central Africa the most. With scores of damaged properties, increased death toll and the risk of waterborne diseases becoming rife is having a devastating effect on this poor nation.

Tens of thousands of people in towns & villages have been affected by terrential rains leading to mud slides and sever strength winds demolishing homes and businesses.

More than 500 people are now confirmed dead in Malawi after Tropical Storm Freddy ripped through southern Africa for the second time in a month.

Malawi's commercial hub, Blantyre, has recorded most of the deaths, including dozens of children.

Aid agencies are warning that the devastation will exacerbate a cholera outbreak in Malawi.

The government has declared a state of disaster in 12 southern districts that have been hardest-hit by the storm.

Rescue workers are overwhelmed.

"We have rivers overflowing, we have people being carried away by running waters, we have buildings collapsing," police spokesman Peter Kalaya told the BBC.

Officials at the main referral hospital in the city said they could not cope with the sheer number of bodies

Medical charity Doctors Without Borders said that more children were pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.

The government's disaster relief agency said more than 510,000 people have been displaced.

The death toll is expected to rise as some areas remain cut off because of relentless flooding

The collapse of roads and bridges had hampered rescue operations, while helicopters could not be used either because of the heavy rains and strong winds.

The government has appealed for help for the tens of thousands of people who have been left without food and shelter.

THE PEOPLE OF MALAWI NEED YOUR HELP NOW#