LIBYA’S SHEEP INDUSTRY HIT HARD BY CIVIL WAR
February 1st, 2017
Civil war, currency instability and smuggling are hitting the Libyan sheep market and stocks of the key Libyan Barbary Sheep breed are decreasing. It is a key source for both meat and wool. Dr Abdulla Elmansoury, Professor of Physiology at Libyan International Medical University, in Benghazi, where he is Dean of the Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, who is also a livestock farmer with holdings near Benghazi has seen his lamb business destroyed by the Libyan civil war that has continued since 2014. He told GlobalMeatNews: “I used to have 270 head of sheep now I ...
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