Following a month-long reign of terror, Tropical Cyclone Freddy was finally declared over on March 14, 2023, but not before claiming around 600 lives and changing hundreds of thousands more. It struck the coast of southern Africa in two waves, tearing through Malawi, Madagascar, and Mozambique, and taking the record for the highest accumulated cyclone energy (a measure based on a storm’s wind strength over its lifetime) of any Southern Hemisphere storm.

According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), it was as forceful as a full North Atlantic hurricane season. The WFP said Freddy was "a call to the world not to turn away from the climate crisis."

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