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Katima Mulilo \u2014 The lush floodplains and dense forests of the Zambezi region are a testament to Namibia’s rich biodiversity.<\/p>\n
However, for communities living here, this natural wealth can be a source of fear and tragedy.<\/p>\n
In the first five months of 2025, human-wildlife conflict has already claimed four lives and left five people injured.<\/p>\n
Hippos, buffaloes and crocodiles are the main culprits.<\/p>\n
One of the most recent and tragic incidents occurred on 4 May when 56-year-old Oliver Chunga Simasiku was…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Katima Mulilo \u2014 The lush floodplains and dense forests of the Zambezi region are a testament to Namibia’s rich biodiversity. However, for communities living here, this natural wealth can be a source of fear and tragedy. In the first five months of 2025, human-wildlife conflict has already claimed four lives and left five people injured. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":197962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,8117,2444,20970,4706,724,257,254,7392],"class_list":["post-197961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-claims","tag-conflict","tag-humanwildlife","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambezi"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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