Donkeys Stolen, Skinned in Africa to Feed Chinese Demand

Dawn was just beginning to break when Joseph Kamonjo Kariuki woke to find his donkeys missing. The villager searched the bush frantically for the animals he depends on to deliver water for a living, but they were nowhere to be found. It was the village’s children who led Kariuki to the ghastly remains: three bloody, severed donkey heads lying on the ground. “I was in shock,” said Kariuki, 37, who is known in his Kenyan village of Naivasha as “Jose wa Mapunda” — “Joseph of the Donkeys”...

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