Category: Surveillance

Mauritanie

Mauritania Pastoral Surveillance Bulletin – June-July 2024

  • Start of wintering in agropastoral sites in Mauritania
  • Pasture deficit at pastoral monitoring sites
  • Water resources generally sufficient at the sites
  • High concentrations of livestock in strategic pastoral areas
  • Fair livestock condition
  • Increase in the price of animal feed and food products
  • Goat-for-sorghum terms of trade unfavorable for breeders 
  • Calm health situation with a few cases of vitamin deficiency and peste de petits ruminants at the surviving sites
  • Continuing arrivals of refugees in the Wilaya of Hodh El Chargui from Mali

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Publications

Multi-sectoral surveillance bulletin on the regions of Timbuktu and Taoudénni in Mali – April-May 2024

  • Harvesting cold off-season crops
  • Preparations for the wintering campaign
  • Relative calm in phytosanitary conditions in the regions of Timbuktu and Taoudenni
  • State of exundated pastures judged poor in Timbuktu and very poor in Taoudénni
  • End of the bourgou harvest with production considered good to average in the Timbuktu region
  • Relatively calm epizootic situation in both regions
  • The condition of the herds was considered fair in Timbuktu and poor in Taoudenni.
  • Animal watering conditions average to poor in Timbuktu and fair in Taoudenni
  • Increase observed in the price of rice
  • 7,736 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Timbuktu and 8,894 in Taoudenni
  • 60,203 people in acute food insecurity (6% of the population) in Timbuktu and 14,020 (22% of the population) in Taoudénni according to the latest report of the harmonized framework for the period from March to May 2024

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Pastoral Surveillance Bulletin for Mali – April-May 2024

  • The terms of trade for goats against millet are very unfavorable for breeders on the majority of sites monitored in the regions of Gao and Timbuktu. 
  • Cattle kidnapping reported in Gao region 
  • Insufficient support for the pastoral sector on the sites monitored in the northern regions 
  • Pasture availability judged to be insufficient to very insufficient 
  • High concentrations of animals recorded in flooded parts of the Gao and Timbuktu regions 
  • Watering conditions considered average to poor

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Pastoral Surveillance Bulletin for Senegal – April-May 2024

  • The concentration of livestock is medium to high
  • Pasture resource conditions are insufficient to average
  • Water resource conditions range from sufficient to average
  • The body condition of small and large ruminants is good
  • Reported illnesses: Runny nose, diarrhea, fluke, anterotoxemia and toxemia;
  • The terms of trade for male cattle for millet and rice remain favorable.
  • Markets are open and state interventions concern vaccinations and livestock feed.

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Mauritanie

Mauritania Pastoral Surveillance Bulletin – April-May 2024

  • Pasture deficit at pastoral monitoring sites 
  • Water resources generally sufficient with a deterioration in watering conditions 
  • High concentrations of livestock in strategic pastoral areas
  • Fair livestock condition 
  • Recording of some bushfire cases 
  • Goat-for-sorghum terms of trade unfavorable for breeders 
  • Calm health situation with a few cases of vitamin deficiency, peste de petits ruminants, pasteurellosis at the Gorgol surveillance sites 

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