Pope Francis makes appeal for cyclone-hit Malawi

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"I am close to the people of Malawi, hit in recent days by a very strong cyclone," Pope Francis said during his General Audience on Wednesday morning in the Vatican, as he recalled the destruction perpetrated by Tropical Cyclone Freddy, which killed hundreds of people and displaced thousands more in the landlocked southeastern African nation.

According to local authorities, the storm has killed at least 199 people in Malawi's southern region and within and around Blantyre, the country's financial hub. A regional cyclone monitoring center on the island of Réunion projects that Freddy will move back out to sea by late Wednesday afternoon.

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