Kruger National Park

Kruger National Park, a famed safari park in South Africa, is currently newsworthy due to severe flooding in the northern provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga. Torrential rains across northeastern South Africa and neighboring Mozambique have led to the park suspending visits and evacuating some guests and staff, in some cases by helicopter. The extreme rainfall, with some locations recording hundreds of millimeters, has contributed to widespread devastation and displacement in the region. The floods are part of a larger crisis affecting southern Africa, where hundreds of thousands have been displaced and over 100 people have died. The park's closure highlights the significant impact of the extreme weather events on infrastructure and tourism in the area, and underscores the broader humanitarian crisis unfolding across the region.