Pastoral Monitoring Bulletin of Mauritania – June-July 2026

• Start of the wintering season
• Launch of the national aerial seeding campaign and tree week activities
• The suspension of cross-border transhumance between Mauritania and Mali remains in effect for security reasons.
• Pasture conditions range from deficient to average in several areas
• High concentrations of livestock in monitored pastoral areas
• Overall, the livestock’s body condition was fair.
• Price increases for animals, particularly small ruminants
• Suspected cases of davitaminosis and animal diseases, including carnation, botulism, pasteurellosis and small ruminant plague, and enterotoxemia
• The terms of the goat/sorghum trade are favorable to livestock farmers in Assaba, Hodh Chargui and Hodh El Gharbi, balanced in Guidimakha, and unfavorable in Brakna and Gorgol.

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