Donkeys are crucial for transportation in Africa, but China’s insatiable demand is stripping villages of their donkeys, jeopardizing their economic survival
and sometimes forcing girls to abandon school to labour at home. Many families have woken up to find their donkeys gone, stolen by poachers to be trafficked to China.
A woman drives donkeys to transport jerrycans of water in a drought affected area in Higlo Kebele, Adadle oreda, Somali region of Ethiopia, in this undated photo.An estimated 25 to 35 per cent of the imported donkeys have been stolen and trafficked illegally. The global trade to supply China is largely unregulated and has become “an enabler of organized criminality,” Prof. Johnston said in her report.
Ghana has emerged as a key hub for the donkey trade in West Africa, the report said, adding that an estimated 100,000 donkeys are slaughtered in the country every year to supply hides to China. “At the conference, people were saying, ‘Wow, our wives are becoming the donkey again,’” Prof. Johnston said.
“It’s a supply-driven trade. We should avoid blaming Chinese cultural practices, because there’s nothing cultural about it.”
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