Hope Found Beneath War-Torn Darfur

But it could apply to one of the root causes of the ethnic conflict: drought, at least according to observers including scientists, Britain’s foreign secretary and retired American military officials.

If only we had known … about an underground lake the size of Lake Erie in Darfur.

A team of geologists from Boston University discovered the imprint of a “megalake” using radar. Farouk el-Baz, director of the study, urged the digging of 1,000 wells to start tapping into it.

“If you find water for the farmers, in addition to that for the nomads, for agricultural production, to feed them, to give them grain, then you resolve the problem completely,” he said.