South African authorities shut Kruger National Park on Thursday to day visitors, after several rivers that run through it burst their banks as the result of days of heavy rains, they said.

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South African lions are taking advantage of the absence of the humans that flock around them during tourist season but have disappeared due to the lockdown imposed in the country to curb the coronavirus pandemic.

Lions nap on road during South Africa's lockdown

How lions took advantage of South Africa's lockdown

The rural crime epidemic has inflamed political and racial tensions nearly a quarter-of-a-century after the fall of apartheid

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