The Ladoum – Senegal's Star Sheep Can Cost More Than a Car
The Ladoum sheep, known as the "king of sheep" in Senegal, is considered a mark of prestige and a status symbol in the African country.
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The Ladoum sheep, known as the "king of sheep" in Senegal, is considered a mark of prestige and a status symbol in the African country.
The chaos is the outcome of a series of questionable policy decisions taken by the government over the years, combined with persistent macroeconomic challenges and global market disruption.
Some of the country’s wealthier families will pay for a Ladoum—a gargantuan hybrid of the Mauritanian Touabire and the Malian Bali-bali—first bred some 70km outside the capital in the early 1970s.