Huge underground lake could end Darfur conflict: US scientist
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The recent discovery of a huge underground lake in Sudan could spell an end to four years of conflict in the drought-stricken region of Darfur, a US geologist said Wednesday.
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ABU SHOUK CAMP, Sudan  - The Sudanese government  is trying to meet U.N. demands to end the conflict in Darfur  that has killed up to 50,000 people but needs to do more,  British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on Tuesday.
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Human-induced climate change and an unslakable thirst for water may drain Lake Mead, the West's largest reservoir, by 2021, say researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
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There has been increased interest among Americans in recent months in the ethnic conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan. Following a visit by Colin Powell, millions of Americans who had little
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A newly found imprint of a vast, ancient underground lake in Sudan's Darfur could restore peace to the region by providing a potential water source to an area ravaged by drought, a U.S. geologist says.
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The United States urged Sudan's  Islamist rulers on Saturday to curb Arab militia attacks in  Darfur and said peace efforts in the turbulent west should draw  strength from an imminent end to a civil war in the south.
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An oil-for-food programme in Sudan could end the conflict in Darfur, says a prominent judge.
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Decades of drought helped trigger Darfur's violence as rival groups fought over scarce water and arable land. Now, experts fear the war and its refugee crisis are making the environment even worse, leaving the land increasingly uninhabitable and intensifying tensions with no end to the drought in sight.
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The United States says it is preparing a new United Nations resolution to deal with the crisis in the troubled Darfur region of Sudan.
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The United States said on Friday it is preparing a new UN resolution on Darfur and that US Secretary of State Colin Powell might address next week whether the violence in western Sudan constitutes genocide.
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Ambassador Michael Ranneberger told members of the American public interested in foreign affairs that the depth and breadth of US efforts &quot;to resolve the crisis in Darfur highlight a major collaborative effort between the United States, our allies, and
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Sudan's Darfur region, already engulfed in a conflict that has forced 1.8 million people to flee their homes, faces a new threat &#151; a drought that has all but wiped out this year's harvest, the top U.S. aid official says.
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The United States said on Friday it is preparing a new U.N. resolution on Darfur and that Secretary of State Colin Powell might address next week whether the violence in western Sudan constitutes genocide.
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A newly discovered lake under barren soil of northern Sudan is as likely to be a source of conflict as a solution to the bloodshed.
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The United States lashed out on Friday  at Sudan's government for its new military offensive in Darfur  and urged the Arab League and the United Nations to do more to  help end the crisis in western Sudan.
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The United States declared on Thursday that the violence in Sudan's Darfur region amounted to genocide and urged the world to back an expanded African peacekeeping force to halt the bloodshed.
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A U.S. congressman and the top American aid official who toured camps of displaced people in Sudan's troubled Darfur region on Saturday called for the international community to do more to end the 19-month conflict. Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced since conflict erupted in February 2003.