However, activists in several countries around Africa are taking up the cudgels on behalf of the hens too, and recently gathered for a strategy meeting in Zimbabwe:        

https://www.chronicle.co.zw/emotional-abuse-of-chickens-must-end-activists-call-for-boycott-of-battery-cage-reared-birds/

As South African farmers suffer the horrendous loss of flocks due to over-heating as a result of load-shedding and faulty generators, now is the time to change to barn eggs and join New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Mexico, Israel and other countries in a phase-out of cages.