Raphael Kinoti News Today

Chinese demand for the hides accounts for the slaughter of more than 5 million animals each year, many from Africa.

Animal welfare charities welcome the African Union decision to ban the donkey skin trade across the continent.

China’s insatiable appetite for traditional medicine ejiao, made from donkey collagen, requires the supply of over 5 million of the animals each year.

Recommendations to be forwarded to Heads of States, Governments for adoption in February 2024

The African Union has supported a report calling for a ban of trade in donkey skins to save the animals from extinction.

Over the last decade, hundreds of thousands of donkeys have been slaughtered for their skins and exported.

King Charles III and Queen Camilla visited Kenya as Kenya celebrates 60 years of independence. Queen Camilla took time out to see the work of Brooke in East Africa.

KSPCA is an animal welfare charity in Kenya that protects animals from neglect and abuse.

The Dar es Salaam declaration was signed during the Pan African Donkey Skin Conference in Tanzania at the start of December.

Kenyan water trader Bernard Irungu speaks about how donkeys have been cructal in his water business on the outskirts of Naivasha town, northwest of Nairobi. They have helped him pay rent, school fees,…