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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Photo: Vast Buried "Fossil Lake" Reported in Darfur


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Women carry water—a scarce, fought-over commodity in Sudan's Darfur region—at a refugee camp in North Darfur state in 2004.

Geologists recently made the controversial claim that they have found an vast underground cache of water in the region, raising hopes for a greener, more peaceful Darfur.

Photograph by Finbarr O'Reilly/Reuters