Genetic research in Africa on sleeping sickness in cattle

Doing research in Africa on sleeping sickness in cattle. They identified a gene in some cattle that makes it resistant to sleeping sickness, which kills millions of cattle each year.

Battling a killer cattle disease: animal sleeping sickness
https://vimeo.com/72825342

The "tsetse belt" stops at the Sahara as the map shows below. The inhabitants of the Sahel (see 2nd map below), the long semi-arid transitional edge between the Sahara and the savanna, include millions of nomadic herders. Losing millions of cattle each year to sleeping sickness is a major obstacle to development and livelihood.

The video shows topics they are investigating and/or discoveries they have made to contain sleeping sickness. Many of the scientists are Brits, the British once occupied Kenya and still have major ties there.