June 10, 2023
Malawi authorities said on Thursday they had arrested more than 400 refugees and asylum seekers in the capital who refused to return to a camp outside the city. The Department of Homeland Security said 408 people, including more than 100 children, were detained in a two-day operation that began with pre-dawn raids on several Lilongwe
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A one-year-old child has died and 23 people are missing after a hippo plowed into a canoe and overturned it on the river. southern Malawiauthorities said on Tuesday. PABLO ESCOBAR HIPPON DIES IN ROAD COLLISION IN COLOMBIA A long wooden canoe was carrying 37 people across the Shire River on its way to neighboring Mozambique
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Extreme weather events in Malawi and Pakistan have led to a “very sharp” increase in malaria cases and deaths, the head of global health said ahead of World Malaria Day on April 25. Cases in Pakistan quadrupled to 1.6 million last year after devastating floods left a third of the country underwater, according to the
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Tropical Cyclone Freddy has caused devastation in parts of southern Africa, killing at least 219 people in Malawi and Mozambique since Saturday evening. Local authorities in Malawi say heavy rains have triggered floods and landslides that have killed 199 people. President Lazarus Chakwera declared a “state of emergency” in the southern region of the country
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After killing hundreds and moving thousands as he broke through Mozambique and Malawi Cyclone Freddy has cleared land since late last week, although flooding threats remain in both countries, the regional monitoring center said late Wednesday. The cyclone has killed at least 225 people across Malawi’s southern region, including Blantyre, the country’s financial center, according
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Survivors of Cyclone Freddy clung to smoldering hopes of finding missing relatives on Tuesday after the storm hit Malawi, hitting Africa a second time in record numbers. At least 110 people in the impoverished country have died since Freddie crashed into South Africa over the weekend, just weeks after he delivered the fatal blow in
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CNN — At least 190 people have died after a tropical Cyclone Freddy It hit southern Malawi, the country’s Department of Disaster Management said on Tuesday. At least 584 people were injured, 37 people are missing. Malawi’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Climate Change said on Tuesday that the cyclone is “weakening but will continue
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At least fifteen people have died in Malawi and Mozambique when Cyclone Freddy hit the two countries with heavy rains and strong winds after it returned to the southern African mainland, authorities said on Monday. Malawi police said 11 people have died in areas surrounding the southern city of Blantyre, where heavy rains have caused
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CNN — At least 11 people were confirmed dead on Monday after deadly tropical storm Crashed into southern Malawi, leaving many injured and missing, local authorities told CNN. “The entire south of Malawi is under the influence of Cyclone Freddy,” Malawi police spokesman Peter Kalaya said. “On Friday, we began to feel the impact of
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