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Nearly three weeks after Tropical Cyclone Freddy hit the country, Department of Disaster Management Affairs (Dodma) says it has lost hope and police will declare the missing 537 persons dead. During a press conference in Blantyre yesterday, Dodma commissioner Charles Kalemba said as of Monday, 676 people had died and 537 were still missing. He
Some public schools in the Southern Region housing Cyclone Freddy survivors are yet to reopen as councils have not relocated the survivors. Currently, about 53 000 survivors are in public primary and secondary schools infrastructures seeking refuge. The development is against Ministry of Education guidelines announced last week that all schools that were temporarily closed
It has emerged that the impact of Tropical Cyclone Freddy has not spared civil servants as it has displaced 400 of them and their families in four of the affected districts. During a tour of Mulanje and Phalombe districts yesterday to cheer up survivors and assess damage, Vice-President Saulos Chilima learnt that the 400 civil