In the hardest-hit country of Malawi, tens of thousands of people have become homeless. An estimated 345,000 people have been affected by heavy rain, flooding and landslides.

"Many areas are inaccessible, which limits the movement of evaluation and humanitarian groups and life-saving supplies," Paul Turnbull, director of the UN Food Programme WFP in Malawi, said, according to the channel.

- The true extent of the destruction will only be revealed once the evaluation has been completed.

The storm formed north of Australia in early February and was named Freddy on February 6. It has since travelled more than 600 miles across the Indian Ocean towards Africa, where Freddy struck Madagascar on February 21.

The WMO has convened an expert group to determine whether the cyclone is the one that has lasted the longest time ever measured so far. According to the organization, it is likely.

See what it looked like a couple of days ago when the storm hit, in the clip below.

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Hundreds of people have died and tens of thousands are forced to flee their homes after Cyclone Freddy hit Malawi in southeast Africa. Photo: SVT