<\/p>\n
Sudan Events – Sumaya Sayed <\/strong><\/p>\n The Australian government said on Monday it had refused a request by a livestock exporter to send a ship carrying around 14,000 sheep and 1,500 cattle on a month-long voyage around Africa to Israel.<\/p>\n The animals have been on board the vessel for a month, prompting outcry from animal rights advocates who have likened their treatment to torture.<\/p>\n The MV Bahijah sailed from Australia for Israel on January 5 but abandoned a passage through the Red Sea due to threat of attack by Yemen\u2019s Houthi militia and was ordered home by the Australian government. Several hundred cattle were offloaded in recent days but Australia\u2019s biosecurity rules mean any animals that disembark must be quarantined.<\/p>\n The agriculture ministry said it was not satisfied that the exporter\u2019s application met Australian or Israeli regulatory requirements or that the animals\u2019 transportation would ensure their health and welfare.<\/p>\n It did not give further details on the decision but said the animals were still in good health.<\/p>\n \u201cThe next steps for the livestock onboard the vessel are commercial decisions for the exporter to make,\u201d it said. \u201cThe department (ministry) stands ready to assess any future application.\u201d<\/p>\n Australia is a major exporter of live animals, shipping more than half a million sheep and half a million cattle last year. The government plans to ban live sheep exports in the coming years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sudan Events – Sumaya Sayed The Australian government said on Monday it had refused a request by a livestock exporter to send a ship carrying around 14,000 sheep and 1,500 cattle on a month-long voyage around Africa to Israel. The animals have been on board the vessel for a month, prompting outcry from animal …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13707,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13705\/revisions\/13707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe ship has been waiting off Western Australia for a week for the government to decide if it can head back to sea.<\/p>\n