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The Bafing River travels through Guinea and Mali, and eventually joins with the Senegal River in western Africa. In the 1970s, drought struck the region, prompting a multinational effort to develop irrigation and power generation.
NASA imagea created by Jesse Allen and Rob Simmon, using Landsat data provided by the United States Geological Survey. Caption by Michon Scott.
Published December 28, 2008 Data acquired March 24, 2003