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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Environment
Rabson Kondowe

‘Feels like a nightmare’: Cyclone Freddy survivors weep in Malawi

Hendry Keinga weeps after losing a family member in a mudslide in Mtauchira village in the aftermath of Cyclone Freddy in Blantyre, Malawi [Esa Alexander/Reuters]

Blantyre, Malawi – Four days after Grace Mastala was forced to flee her home at the foot of the Soche Quarry community at the base of a hill in Malawi’s commercial capital of Blantyre, she is still looking for her 13-year-old son, dead or alive.

Mother and child were separated by Cyclone Freddy, a record-breaking storm that made its way into the southern African country and its eastern neighbour Mozambique last weekend.

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