Malawi President Pleads For Aid After Cyclone Ravages Half Of Country, Killing Hundreds
The Guardian|March 20, 2023
President Lazarus Chakwera of Malawi has said that nearly half of his country has been damaged by Cyclone Freddy, which has killed hundreds of people and become the longest-lasting tropical storm on record.
Tracy Mc Veigh
Malawi President Pleads For Aid After Cyclone Ravages Half Of Country, Killing Hundreds

In an interview, the president asked for help from the international community and said the structural destruction was vast.

"This demonstrates that climate change issues are real and we are standing right in the path of it," said Chakwera, who added that the climate crisis had the potential to keep "a nation like Malawi in perpetual poverty".

By Saturday, the death toll in Malawi stood at 438 and families and rescuers spent the weekend digging through mud and rubble, often with their bare hands, looking for the missing.

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