United Nations has released 10 million dollars from the Central Emergency Response Fund to support the response of the Cyclone Freddy second landfall in Mozambique.
In a Press Briefing on Thursday by the UN Chief Spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric, while giving update from Cyclone Freddy in Southern Africa, where the extent of the Cyclone’s second landfall has become more apparent.
According to him, “Our partners continue to work closely with authorities to help some 49,000 displaced people who have sought safety across nearly 140 accommodation centres.
In Malawi, he said the UN Resident Coordinator, Rebecca Adda-Dontoh has been visiting flood-impacted areas and has called for international community to step up its solidarity with people who have been impacted by the cyclone.
He added that additional search and rescue capacity arrived today with support from the World Food Programme. More than 200 people have been rescued so far and we continue to hear reports of people stranded.
The Spokesman lamented that operations have, however, been hampered by difficult weather. “We are also facing challenges to deliver supplies”, Stéphane Dujarric said.
“With more than 88,000 people displaced by the floods across 165 temporary sites, we are working to ramp-up assistance to access areas by providing food, tents, blankets, and water, sanitation and hygiene supplies”, he said.
Also, Zambian President, Hakainde Hichilema expressed his sympathies with President Chakwera and the people of Malawi over the horrific loss of life and damage to property caused by Tropical Cyclone Freddy.
As the Government of Zambia provided a relief aid aircraft and a search and rescue aircraft to help rescue people who are still trapped due to floods in Malawi, according Malawi24.
Defence Force Deputy Chief of military operations, Colonel Lameck Kalenga, says the aircrafts released though the Zambian Air force. The two aircrafts are expected to be used in hard to reach areas in Mulanje, Phalombe and Nsanje.
In the Southern Region of Malawi, 326 people have died and thousands have been displaced due to the impact of Cyclone Freddy as reported by Malawi24.
The cyclone, which originated off the north-west of Australia in recent weeks and travelled across Indian Ocean, resulted in many deaths, a high rate of injury and the loss of public infrastructure and private property in the three Southern African states.