3,000 sheep die after live exports rejected by Saudi Arabia
by Zeinab Mohammed Salih from World news | The Guardian on (#56VMG)
Animals died of hunger and thirst after 58,000 returned to Sudan due to quarantine compromise
Around 3,000 sheep sent back from Saudi Arabia by ship to Sudan have died of hunger and thirst according to a Sudanese government minister. Some drowned on the voyage.
Saudi Arabia returned 58,000 sheep to Sudan after finding out that quarantine procedures in Sudan had been compromised, leaving some animals without vaccination against diseases including Rift Valley fever.
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