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By Thulani Mpofu Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi has said his government will kill 20,000 elephants and distribute their meat to starving locals if Germany does not accept his proposal to send as many jumbos to the European country, Tass reports. In April 2024, he offered 20,000 elephants to Germany as a way to manage their population in his country. ‘When people are starving,’ the Russian publication wrote on September 27, citing a report by Bild, a German paper, ‘we must feed them. […] I’m afraid we will have to feed some of those elephants or even all of them to the people.’ The sout…

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