Portal:Current events/2023 March 13

Disasters and accidents

• 2022–23 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
  • Cyclone Freddy
    • Cyclone Freddy kills at least 99 people in Malawi, including 85 people in Blantyre. It is the longest-lived tropical cyclone on record, according to the WMO, having formed on February 4. (The Guardian)
• Thirty-four people are killed after a boat carrying migrants from Madagascar to the island of Mayotte sinks. (Arab News)
• One person is killed and three others are injured by an apparent gas explosion in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• 2023 Amqui truck attack
  • Two people are killed and nine others are injured when a truck strikes a group of pedestrians in Amqui, Quebec, Canada. (CBS News)

Politics and elections

• 2023 Tokelauan general election
  • Kerisiano Kalolo becomes the new Head of Government of Tokelau. (RNZ)