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Elephant crossing in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, southern Africa. The largest national park in the country, Hwange is thought to hold the world's largest concentration of African elephants (estimates vary between 17,000 and 30,000).
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An impala at Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, southern Africa. The park is home to more than a hundred species of game, including almost 6,000 impala.

Coal-mining town in Zimbabwe, 300 km/186 mi northwest of Bulawayo; population (2002 est) 35,000. It is the centre of the country's chief coal-mining area, with the western coalfields covering at least 1,000 sq km/386 sq mi. There are also tin and copper mines. Hwange National Park is nearby.



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Early this year, the government pressed charges in court against the Catholic diocese of Hwange over its alleged involvement in black-market currency exchange.
Hartebeest, wildebeest and zebra in South Africa's Kruger National Park, Botswana's Okavango Delta and Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park could be severely threatened by a predicted 5-per-cent drop in rainfall.
On the parched outskirts of Hwange National Park in western Zimbabwe, Mabale villagers were screaming epithets, flailing arms and legs, and beating drums and pots, creating an unearthly din.
 
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