Flooding: Ex-Malawi president to study FEMA

A former President of Malawi, Dr Joyce Banda, has indicated interest in studying how the FCT Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was able to record zero deaths during the 2022 flooding. The Head, Public Affairs of FEMA, Ms Nkechi Isa, in a statement on Tuesday, said Mrs Banda stated this when she met with the Director […]

A former President of Malawi, Dr Joyce Banda, has indicated interest in studying how the FCT Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was able to record zero deaths during the 2022 flooding.

The Head, Public Affairs of FEMA, Ms Nkechi Isa, in a statement on Tuesday, said Mrs Banda stated this when she met with the Director General of the agency, Dr Abbas Idriss.

Mrs Banda, the Ambassador for Climate Change and Justice, commended FEMA for its efforts in mitigating flooding in the nation’s capital.

She said Malawi and the FCT had faced similar climatic conditions in 2022, adding that heavy floods and Cyclone Freddy devastated Malawi, killing scores of people and displacing two million people, noting that Malawi required $700bn to recover infrastructure damaged by the flood.

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She lamented that the whole of Africa was paying the price of climate change.