Africanews · 2026-08-23

Alarm as bush fires ravage Burundi's Ruvubu National Park

More than 10,000 hectares of Ruvubu National Park have been destroyed by bushfires. Understaffed and under equipped, park rangers are constantly battling the flames with little success

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