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Two African ‘Lost Tribes’ Discovered Deep in the Sahara
Aug 30 2008, Heidi

The two tribes lived there in a plum lakeside community when the Sahara Desert, as we know it, was a lush, green country, but were separated by effects of climate change over a time line of 1,000 years.

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