Charles Tombe is refusing to comment on the affair
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Sudan’s famous goat ‘wife’ dies
The best-known goat in Sudan has died months after being “married” to a man in the South Sudan capital, Juba, the BBC has learned.
Local elders ordered a man found having sex with the goat, later called Rose, to “marry” her last February. “The idea was to publicly embarrass the man,” says Tom Rhodes, editor of the Juba Post, which first ran the story. The BBC’s story of the “wedding” caught the public imagination and became one of the most read internet stories. Rose, black and white, is believed to have died after choking on a plastic bag she swallowed as she was eating scraps on the streets of Juba.
‘Sense of humour’
After the marriage, Rose had a male kid – but “not a human one” – Mr Rhodes said, hastily.
The “husband”, Charles Tombe, said he was drunk at the time but has since refused to comment on the issue. The kid is owned by Mr Tombe. More than a year after the BBC story was first published, it is still picked up by various web forums and being emailed across the world. Recently it got more than 100,000 page views for five successive days.