Organ Trafficking: How Germans Buy New Kidneys in Kenya
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Germans in need of new kidneys are heading to Kenya to buy one. The donors are frequently suffering from bitter poverty. Behind the scheme is an Israeli whom the authorities have been after for years.

DER SPIEGEL, German public broadcaster ZDF and Deutsche Well teamed up over the course of several months to follow the organ trail. From Germany and Poland via Israel to the clinic in Eldoret, Kenya, that is currently in the center of an international and seemingly criminal kidney trade. The transactions and transplants link patients in Germany with donors in Caucasus nations like Azerbaijan. And it links prosperous Somalians with young Kenyans who are talked into earning a quick 2,000 to 5,000 euros for one of their kidneys, while patients in the West pay up to 200,000 euros to the organ traders – preferably in cash.

  • Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Experts have been raising alarm for years about such criminal practices, and not only in Kenya. In some authoritarian countries, forced organ harvesting (such as from detainees, or members of minority groups) is even orchestrated by the countries’ governments.

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