{"id":236218,"date":"2025-04-17T21:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T20:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/kenya-halts-kidney-transplants-after-dw-investigation-dw-news\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T21:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T20:05:09","slug":"kenya-halts-kidney-transplants-after-dw-investigation-dw-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/kenya-halts-kidney-transplants-after-dw-investigation-dw-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya halts kidney transplants  after DW investigation | DW News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/dEe8_ruwKuM\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Kenya halts kidney transplants  after DW investigation | DW News\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dEe8_ruwKuM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>German media outlets Der Spiegel, ZDF and DW spent months investigating an international organ trafficker network preying on the desperate.<br \/>\nIts members persuade poor, young Kenyans to sell kidneys for very little money. These organs are then sold on to recipients in Germany and elsewhere for up to \u20ac200,000 ($222,000), earning traffickers substantial profits. There are indications that local Kenyan authorities and lawmakers are turning a blind eye to the practice.<br \/>\nFollowing its publication, the investigation prompted Kenyan authorities to act and put an end to the transplants, as well as suspending responsible officials. <\/p>\n<p>Watch the full report here:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The global organ trafficking network | DW Documentary\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qmeJQiLZWcU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Chapters:<br \/>\n00:00 Kenya at the center of brutal global Kidney trade<br \/>\n04:28 DW Correspondent Felix Maringa on the reaction of the Kenyan government<\/p>\n<p>For more news go to: http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Follow DW on social media:<br \/>\n\u25baInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baTikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deutschewellenews\/<br \/>\n\u25baTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/dwnews<\/p>\n<p>F\u00fcr Videos in deutscher Sprache besuchen Sie: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/dwdeutsch<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/deutschewelleenglish?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n<p>#kenya #investigations #dw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German media outlets Der Spiegel, ZDF and DW spent months investigating an international organ trafficker network preying on the desperate. Its members persuade poor, young Kenyans to sell kidneys for very little money. These organs are then sold on to recipients in Germany and elsewhere for up to \u20ac200,000 ($222,000), earning traffickers substantial profits. There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":236219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130889],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-236218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dw-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kenya halts kidney transplants after DW investigation | DW News | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Kenya halts kidney transplants after DW investigation | DW News for free, here on News ISC. 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