(Posted 10th April 2026)
Courtesy of African Elephant News
| The Economist (Britain), April 9, 2026 |
| One cold morning in June 2023, Masiye Banda was picking pumpkin leaves in her patch outside the village of Cafwamba, near Malawi’s Kasungu National Park, when an elephant rushed towards her. As she tried to run, the tusker hooked Beatrice, her two-year-old daughter, from her back and threw her to the side. Ms Banda fell and was trampled to death, leaving behind five children and her husband. The elephant that killed Ms Banda had been moved to Kasungu, which straddles Malawi and Zambia, from Liwonde National Park in Malawi the year before, along with 262 others. |
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