In Spain, migrants are saving sheep farms by taking over shepherding

In Spain’s rural areas, sheep farms are having a hard time finding employees willing to herd the animals. To fill that gap and also find work for recent migrants, a government program is training recently arrived migrants, many from African countries, to become shepherds.

The bells and bleats faded as Osam Abdulmumen, a migrant from Sudan, herded sheep back from pasture, the sun setting over a centuries-old farm in Spain’s arid…