Kenyan envoy to Oman Sheikh Mohamed Dor (left) speaks with Al Bashayer Meat Company CEO Ghalib Alsaidi at the Port of Mombasa on Monday. Kenya has resumed exporting livestock to the Gulf States. [Omondi Onyango, Standard]
On Monday, the first shipment of 11,449 mixed-breed goats and sheep worth Sh226 million left Mombasa for the Port of Salalah in Oman.
The livestock shipment is the first to any of the Gulf States - Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates - in the last 16 years.
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