Africans want to sell donkey skins. Western charities want to stop them
Chinese demand for Equus africanus is booming
BARINGO county, in Kenya’s Rift Valley, is a hard place. Water is short in the dusty bush, so businesses tend not to thrive. But one industry is booming. At the edge of Mogotio, a town of roadside shops, hundreds of donkeys graze along the road. They are waiting to be sold for slaughter at the local abattoir. Next to a lorry, a woman in a shimmering dress says she has brought 100 donkeys from Moyale, two days’ drive north. She expects to make several thousand dollars from the sale.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “Saving asses”
Middle East & Africa March 10th 2018
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- How to save Botswana’s sparkling reputation
- Ahead of a farcical election, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi goes after the press
- Africans want to sell donkey skins. Western charities want to stop them
- Increasing debt in many African countries is a cause for worry
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