1/9. 🌀Devastating tropical #CycloneFreddy, which has made landfall twice 🤯, has caused #LossAndDamage in #Madagascar🇲🇬, #Mozambique 🇲🇿 and #Maliwi 🇲🇼 including 220+ deaths, whilst breaking records as the longest lasting cyclone. 
2/9. In #Madagascar🇲🇬, at least 17 people have died due to #CycloneFreddy (7 from the first landfall on 21 February and 10 from the latest rains on 5 and 6 March), and nearly 299,000 people have affected.
3/9. In #Mozambique 🇲🇿, #CycloneFreddy has seen some provinces received as much rain in 24 hours as they would usually experience in one month. As a result 10 people have died and 14 have been injured, 1,900 houses have been damaged or destroyed.
4/9. In #Maliwi 🇲🇼, #CycloneFreddy has led to the loss of at least 111 people have lost their lives and some 19,000 people have been displaced in the hardest-hit districts and and nearly 299,000 people have been affected. 📼@juliusngoma
5/9. With the #ClimateCrisis making extreme weather events like #CycloneFreddy increasingly more intense and frequent, #LossAndDamage will continue to escalate as adaptation measures fail or are not able to be implemented.
6/9. Whilst #COP27's historic agreement to establish a #LossAndDamage Fund is much needed good news, the Fund is empty and yet to start working leaving impacted communities and to pay for the cost of rebuilding.
7/9. With the first meeting of the Transitional Committee of the #LossAndDamage Fund being held from the 27-29th of March in #Luxor, #Egypt 🇪🇬, Parties must focus on designing a fit-for-purpose #LossAndDamage Fund that gets to work urgently to address #LossAndDamage.
8/9. To find out more about record breaking #CycloneFreddy and its impacts read the following articles:
🔗reuters.com/world/africa/r…
🔗washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/0…
🔗aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/15…
🔗edition.cnn.com/2023/03/12/afr…
🔗reuters.com/world/africa/r…
🔗washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/0…
🔗aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/15…
🔗edition.cnn.com/2023/03/12/afr…
9/9. 🌊Find out more about #LossAndDamage here: lossanddamagecollaboration.org/whatislossandd……
📼Find out why polluters including #FossilFuel companies must #PayUp4LossAndDamage by watching “This Is #LossAndDamage - Who Pays? here:
📼Find out why polluters including #FossilFuel companies must #PayUp4LossAndDamage by watching “This Is #LossAndDamage - Who Pays? here:
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