Political officials and news services from the region have repeatedly decried this fly as a disease-carrying pest, despite documentation that it is not.
The weeds provide the necessary habitat for black-fly, mosquitoes and snails, which are the vectors of water-borne illnesses such as bilharzia, river blindness and malaria.
You could argue that this is fly-by-night dance music, that nothing really happens after the first minute or so and that it won't stand the test of time.
The desert warthog is an important host of the tsetse fly, and in some parts of its range efforts are being made to reduce warthog numbers because of this.
