Rosso in Mauritania, a new livestock market to secure meat consumption

Audio 7:30 p.m.

By: Sayouba Traoré

The case is delicate. Already, livestock farming is facing several health constraints: trypanosomiasis, gastrointestinal venninosis, bovine babiosis, tuberculosis and cysticercosis. Let us add that the marketing of cattle is done in markets not always suitable for this kind of activity. And during slaughter, another problem arises, tsetse flies, in layman terms of flies that can infect meat and other meat products.

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Today we are going to visit the old and the new Rosso cattle market in Mauritania. A new livestock market, it makes it possible to secure the consumption of meat of the whole agglomeration. We don't have to go very far, because the old market is in the city center and the new market is at PK6, as they say there. As for the old market, it is a perimeter with ill-defined contours, and which bathes in an unhealthy bowl in normal times. We dare not imagine the situation in case of rain.

Whatever its destination, an African market cannot function without the participation of women. You could even say that it is women who make a living, even if it is men who take the biggest share of the money.

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Guests:
- Safiatou Omar Dieye , head of the technical and pastoralism department at the Willaya du Trarza
- Chbeye Mint Assane , representative of women in the Rosso cattle market

Production: Sayouba Traoré
Realization: Ewa Piedel

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