Animal welfare advocates and agricultural researchers are renewing calls for urgent government intervention to stop the ...

The government has banned the slaughter of donkeys for the export market. In a telephone interview yesterday, Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Peter Munya said the ban follows a petition by donkey owners ...

Donkeys are under threat in Africa, but thanks to a new rule by officials, the species is expected to regain its numbers. According to The Eastleigh Voice, millions of donkeys are slaughtered in ...

Almost six million donkeys are slaughtered annually for Chinese medicine, with severe knock-on effects for African villagers who rely on the animals, a UK-based charity said on Thursday. It is driven ...

Donkey carcasses found at Rwasumali Village in Ndeiya, Limuru Constituency. [Twitter, DCI] Police in Kiambu County have arrested two suspects who were on Wednesday allegedly found slaughtering donkeys ...

Authorities have intercepted 16 tonnes of donkey hides at the Kanyonyoo area along the Thika–Garissa Highway during an ...

Kenya has decided to ban the slaughter of donkeys for use in Chinese medicine, a practice condemned by animal rights activists as cruel, unnecessary and devastating to donkey populations in Africa, a ...

Donkey slaughter has come under renewed scrutiny in South Africa after Karoo Donkey Sanctuary and partner organisations ...

The gelatin found in the animals' skin has made them a target, leading to a growing wave of donkey slaughtering in several African countries. The gelatin found in the animals' skin has made them a ...

Despite a continental push to end the donkey skin trade, South Africa's regulated slaughter continues, raising critical concerns among animal welfare advocates. In February 2024, the African Union's m ...

MOGOSANI, South Africa — Under a cloudless sky in South Africa’s northwestern farming region, donkeys still amble along muddy paths, pausing to nibble on grass, oblivious to the threat from a demand ...