January 26, 2021

Tanzania imposes restriction on movement of pigs due to ASF

Tanzanian authorities have directed the country's regional and district commissioners on January 23 to control the transportation of pigs to curb the spread of African swine fever.

Mashimba Ndaki, Tanzania's Minister for Livestock and Fisheries, made the directive after the disease has been reported in the country's six northern districts.

In the northern district of Kahama in the Shinyanga region, some 500 pigs had been killed by ASF. Anamringi Macha, the Kahama district commissioner, said that the pigs had been killed since the ASF broke out in late December last year.

In March 2018, more than 900 pigs were killed by the African swine fever in southern Tanzania's region of Ruvuma.

- Xinhua