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Dar es Salaam, Nov. 27 -- THE East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) has passed a motion tabled by its member, Dr Woda Odok, with regard to The Livestock Bill 2020 that seeks to provide for the transboundary movement of livestock and control of animal diseases within the East African Community (EAC).
The bill will grant coordinated identification, characterisation, mapping and enumeration of livestock.
It also seeks to strengthen the detection, prevention and control of transboundary animal diseases, and provides for a regulatory framework to monitor pastoral ecosystems.
Dr Odok from South Sudan was of the view that the bill would boost the national efforts made by partner states to mitigate and address challenges faced by pastoralists and their livestock within their territories.
She said that outbreaks of trans-boundary animal diseases cause devastating economic losses to pastoralists and livestock farmers and efforts by the EAC...