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Saudis lift ban on Somali livestock exports

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    Saudi Arabia has lifted a ban on the importation of livestock from Somalia after being assured of the absence of Rift Valley Fever, the disease which caused them to order a ban on Somali livestock 17 months ago, the Somali newspaper 'Qaran' reported on Wednesday. Somali livestock exporters welcomed the news with great relief. Regional analysts told IRIN that the rearing and exportation of livestock was a crucial economic activity for tens of thousands of Somali pastoralists and the ban - which also affected Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia - had hit Somalia hard.

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