Eritrea to take 52,000 stranded sheep

Eritrea has agreed to accept a cargo of 52,000 Australian sheep stranded in the Middle East for almost three months, the two countries said today.

Under the agreement, Australia will supply more than 3,000 metric tonnes of feed and one million Australian dollars (€594,000) to meet expenses associated with the unloading, transport, holding and slaughter of the sheep in the east African nation, Eritrea’s agriculture minister Arefaine Berhe and his Australian counterpart Warren Truss said in a statement.