Maun so dry hippos feed on hay

Crocodile basking in the sun with cattle drink from pool PIC: THALEFANG CAHRLES
Crocodile basking in the sun with cattle drink from pool PIC: THALEFANG CAHRLES

What happens when the sustenance of a town ceases to exist? Maun is facing its worst drought in recent history and there are already victims. But this is only the beginning of the cruellest natural catastrophe. Staff Writer THALEFANG CHARLES reports on the disastrous failure of the once glorious Thamalakane River in Maun

MAUN: Five hippos and at least 18 crocodiles are trapped in a small pool in the middle of Maun. And time is running out for the beasts because the water, which is their only shelter, is quickly drying up. Maun is facing one of the driest periods in many decades.

Thamalakane River is as dry as a bone. The annual flooding from the Okavango Delta that normally arrives around the months of May and June has not come this year.

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