Cyclone Freddy kills more than 100 in Mozambique and Malawi

Freddy is set to become the longest-lasting tropical cyclone on record. [Forward to a friend]( | [Subscribe]( | [View in your browser]( [Top of The World]( --------------------------------------------------------------- What The World is following Cyclone Freddy kills more than 100 in Mozambique and Malawi [People help an injured man after Cyclone Freddy strikes, in Blantyre, Malawi, March 13, 2023.] Credit: Thoko Chikondi/AP Mozambique-Malawi Cyclone Freddy has [killed more than 100 people]( across Mozambique and Malawi. The tropical storm has ripped through southern Africa for the second time in one month. Malawi bore the brunt of the damage, with mudslides washing away houses while people slept inside. More than a 100 others have also been injured, while dozens remain missing. And Mozambique’s disaster management agency said that the fallout from the storm was worse than expected. Freddy is set to be what is believed to be the [longest-lasting tropical cyclone]( on record. Turkey Tuesday marks [20 years in power]( for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. He served as prime minister from 2003-2014, and has been the president since then. Erdoğan began his time in office as a reformist who expanded rights and freedoms, but has shifted course over the years, cracking down on dissent and stifling press freedoms. He also began the process for his country to join the European Union. Most recently he’s faced criticism over the government’s handling of the earthquakes that devastated parts of the country. Erdoğan [faces tough elections]( in May. France Garbage is piling up in the French capital as [sanitation workers strike]( for a ninth day. The stoppage is part of the dispute over a pension reform bill that would, among other things, raise the retirement age in France by two years. Since Saturday, [around 5,600 tons of trash]( are awaiting collection, according to the Paris mayor’s office. And garbage trucks have been unable to pick up waste across much of the city because they also have nowhere to put it with trash incinerators being backed up. --------------------------------------------------------------- From The World [Iraqi reporter who threw his shoes at George W. Bush says his country is still paying the price for the US-led invasion]( [Muntazer al-Zaidi, 48, at his home on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq.]( Credit: Shirin Jaafari/The World Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi was thrust into the global spotlight in 2008 after he threw his shoes at then-US President George W. Bush. Two decades after the US-led invasion of Iraq, he says his country is still [paying the price]( for the invasion. [Scheduled blackouts roll South Africa into electricity crisis]( [A coal-fired power station in Witbank, South Africa , Monday, Oct. 11, 2021.]( Credit: Themba Hadebe/File/AP The lights may be off, but "crisis mode" is definitely switched on in South Africa. Despite a national state of disaster and a new minister of electricity, scheduled power outages, known as load-shedding, continue to [heavily impact]( citizens. --------------------------------------------------------------- Double take Colombia is still struggling to contain a [booming hippopotamus population](. And it’s now thinking to ship them abroad. The imported hippos belonged to the drug lord Pablo Escobar and escaped into the wild from the exotic menagerie at his lavish estate after his death in 1993. The regional government is now in negotiations with a park in India and a sanctuary in Mexico, where it wants to start shipping the hippos. 🦛 [Screenshot of The Guardian tweet]( Credit: Twitter In case you missed it on The World --------------------------------------------------------------- Don't forget to subscribe to The World's Latest Edition podcast using your favorite podcast player: [RadioPublic](, [Apple Podcasts](, [Stitcher](, [Soundcloud](, [RSS]( [The World logo]( [The World on Facebook]( [The World's Twitter account]( [Donate]( | [Forward to a friend]( | [Subscribe]( | [Edit your subscription]( | [Unsubscribe]( | [View in your browser]( Top of the World is written weekday mornings by the team at [The World](. [The World]( is produced by [PRX]( and [GBH](.