Australia Gives Eritrea Sheep It Couldn't Sell

MASSAWA, Eritrea — Eritrea agreed Friday to accept as a gift 52,000 Australian sheep that had been stranded at sea for almost three months, rejected by dozens of countries because of a disease, the two nations announced.

The first of the sheep were herded ashore at this Red Sea port in northeast Africa by workers who covered their noses because of the odor from the ship, where more than 5,000 sheep had died during the voyage.

Australia has agreed to supply more than 3,000 metric tons of feed and $700,000 to fund the unloading, transport, holding and slaughter of the sheep, said Eritrean Agriculture Minister Arefaine Berhe and his Australian counterpart, Warren Truss.

The sheep were sent in early August from Western Australia to Saudi Arabia but were turned away by Saudi officials who said that too many of them had scabby mouth disease.

The sheep's plight has sparked a storm of protest from animal rights activists around the world and threatened to jeopardize Australia's multimillion-dollar live animal exports.

The fracas prodded Canberra to buy the sheep last month from the original buyer, a Saudi importer, for $3.1 million and attempt to find a country that would take them.

Truss said it was satisfying to have found a destination for the sheep in the Middle East. The entire cargo had been offered free to 57 other countries, all of which rejected them.

The animals were on their way back to the Cocos Islands, a remote Australian territory in the Indian Ocean, when Eritrea agreed to accept them.

Australia exports $136.5 million worth of live animals each year, mostly to countries that require livestock slaughtered according to Islamic standards.


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The sheep were condemned by the entire world not to land in their soil let alone their dogs or the wild hyenas to eat them but for the Bandalanders, “MANA” came from the heaven and they eat their bloods, skin, eyes, brain and the rest including the fammdia used as “ZIGNI” of the year for those lucky enough to get one of the sheep.

That was the day they reduced to subhuman, now we see them they are breeding with hyenas around African countries.

The first of the sheep were herded ashore at this Red Sea port in northeast Africa by workers who covered their noses because of the odor from the ship, where more than 5,000 sheep had died during the voyage.

Can you imagine the subhuman Arab-slaves eating those sick sheep that were stinking with foul odor coming out of their bodies while alive and walking??

Rip Van Winkle, you must have been asleep all those years, to present such vintage news as if it happened today.

The sheep were sent in early August from Western Australia to Saudi Arabia but were turned away by Saudi officials who said that too many of them had scabby mouth disease.

The SAudis said, we ain't taking them stinky sheep, send them to our slaves and the slave-tribe accepts the sick sheep. I would kill myself if I were an Anseba.

Rip Van Winkle, you must have been asleep all those years, to present such vintage news as if it happened today.

This should be on the headlines everyday because I don't think any nation has ever accepted stinking sheep that were rejected by the entire world.

The poor Bellulah is dry like her mamma's metri. no new news..no nada, moite moite

Here is a news for you....

EDMOND ROY: The small east African nation of Eritrea has come to the aid of Australia's live sheep trade, after the Cormo Express began unloading its cargo at the Eritrean port of Massawa.

The 52,000 sheep, which had spent 79 days at sea, after being rejected by 57 countries, have been given free to the Eritrean Government, along with $1 million for their upkeep.

One of the poorest countries in Africa, Eritrea often faces devastating famines.

Among those watching the docking of the Cormo Express at the port of Massawa was journalist Jonah Fisher.

I spoke with him earlier this morning.

JONAH FISHER: Well, it's hard to tell exactly how the sheep look because security is pretty tight around the port of Massawa, but you can get pretty close to the entrance where you can actually see the big ship, the Cormo Express itself.

And the thing that really strikes you as you are near the port is the smell. It’s overwhelming smell of sheep.

Workers as they walk in and out of the port are covering their mouths because it's a very strong smell, there's obviously a lot of sheep related mess on this boat, which has been for two months, with perhaps 50,000 sheep on board it.

So I can't tell you exactly what the conditions of the sheep themselves are in because they're not allowing people into the port, but one can only speculate about what one would find if one looked on board the boat itself.

EDMOND ROY: What's the thinking there?

Surely, they've got a shipload of free sheep, but other than that, is there any sort of… on the streets any reaction to it?

JONAH FISHER: Not really. The Eritreans I've spoken to generally don't even seem to know about it.

The media here is entirely owned by the Government and I think it's a message perhaps the Government doesn't want to tell the population, because effectively Eritrea has agreed to take sheep which so many other countries have been unwilling to take off Australia's hands. So in effect accepting these sheep conveys a message the Government doesn't want to have the people to have, that we're desperate enough to take these sheep ourselves.

EDMOND ROY: Now, it is of course good news for Australia in terms of getting rids of this as it were.

Is it good news for Eritrea?


Of course, there's the money as well. They've being paid a million Australian dollars and given some feed towards the upkeep of these sheep.

So in a sense for the Government it's pretty much a win-win situation for what they're getting out of it – free food and some money.

EDMOND ROY: I suppose to some extent they could possibly have twisted Canberra's arm a bit.

After all, 57 countries knocked it back.

JONAH FISHER: Obviously the Australians must have been pretty desperate by the time it came to here, 57 countries as you mentioned have turned this ship down. So it was heading back to Australia by the time this deal was struck.

So this is a situation whereby the Eritreans were probably able to pretty much call the shots in terms of what they wanted in order to take what has become an extremely awkward problem for the Australian Government off their hands.

EDMOND ROY: Journalist Jonah Fisher, at the Eritrean port of Massawa.






Eritrea got 1 million dollar for receiving those sheeps and 3000 metric tons of sheep food which Eritrea will use for its healty sheeps. Eritrea never had shortage of Sheep, not even during derg time... But according to my sources those sheep where slaughtered and given to feed the Tigray Refugees and those run away weyane soldiers. Iam sure TPDM, EPPF, BEANI SHANGUL and the rest of them where feed too

The sheep were condemned by the entire world not to land in their soil let alone their dogs or the wild hyenas to eat them but for the Bandalanders, “MANA” came from the heaven and they eat their bloods, skin, eyes, brain and the rest including the fammdia used as “ZIGNI” of the year for those lucky enough to get one of the sheep.

That was the day they reduced to subhuman, now we see them they are breeding with hyenas around African countries.

Ayte Halafi,

You should be the happiest person for this news now. Your brothers from Tembien called TPDM will have the sheep for at least months to enjoy them and Eritreans will have the one million dollars and food for our healthy sheep. Isn’t it a fair deal????
It is so funny you called Eritreans "subhuman". Are you serious about that?? I don't think any body can deny the fact that the subhuman thing is reserved for Tegaru forever and nobody else in the world gets to that level whatsoever.

Let me give you few tips briefly what makes you subhuman:
- You are well known for looting, lying and selling your mothers for the lowest bidder.
-As we speak, you are selling Ethiopia $1/ hectare for 99 years
- Exporting 45,000 Ethiopian women per months for year knowing that they would be abused
- Selling Ethiopian children to whites knowing that they would be raped

Do you need some more subhuman ayte Halafi ????

Dedebit is always dedebit.

R.I.P Abay Tigray

we took them because they were much better than the sick [deleted] we use to have in Eritrea and we also took and put the sick @game leadership in palace .