#Mauritania : Mauritania is going to supply the Senegalese market with sheep during the festival of Eid el-Kebir, despite the context of the coronavirus pandemic. The two states have taken the necessary measures to facilitate this mass transhumance.
In the measure of the means, it is a large ram, thus perpetuating the biblical gesture, then Koranic, of Abraham towards his elder son.
Thus, despite the context of a huge health depression, with serious economic and social consequences, the Senegalese government mobilizes its partners to avoid a possible shortage likely to increase the anger of the population in these difficult times.
In this perspective, Mauritania will supply the markets of Senegal with 450,000 sheep of sacrifice for the great Muslim festival of Tabaski, scheduled for early August.
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In 2020, this deadline will inevitably fall in a particular context: a global coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19), which is responsible for closing the borders, to limit its spread.
This information is the result of a virtual meeting between the Mauritanian Minister for Rural Development, Dy ould Zeine, and the Senegalese Minister for Livestock, Samba NDobene Ka.
The meeting focused on the mechanisms for supplying the Senegalese market with sheep during the feast of El Adha 2020. The two sides discussed several issues, including the opening of borders for 90 days to 45 days before the feast of ‘Aid Al Adha and 45 days after, note to allow Mauritanian traders to sell the rest of their sheep. Thus, three herd crossing points on the Senegal river have been identified (Rosso, Boghé and Matam-Toufde-Civet ”, reports the Mauritanian Information Agency (AMI).
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On the Mauritanian side, “all measures have been taken to supply the Senegalese market with Tabaski sheep, in accordance with the centuries-old relations of economic and social complementarity between the two peoples, and the need to strengthen them. The Mauritanian government will issue medical export certificates in order to facilitate sheep’s access to Senegalese markets, “said the Minister of Rural Development, Dy ould Zeine.
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At the same time, the government of Senegal “is going to endow specific authorizations, the trucks transporting the sheep of sacrifice, sparing them the barriers. It will also proceed to the equipment of the places of sale, in water, electricity and cattle feed, while taking into account the preventive health precautions of the Covid-19 and this, in order to secure the traders and their cattle during the season ” .
The needs of the Senegalese market in sheep for sacrifices for the feast of Tabaski have been estimated at 700,000 head in recent years.
The supply is assured thanks to the contribution of hundreds of thousands of animals coming from Mali and Mauritania.
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