A Sudanese refugee in the Iridimi camp stands by a craggy tree.
The dearth of firewood at camp drives women and girls into the
bush to find fuel.  AP Photo/Ben Curtis  ­In one Darfur refugee
camp in Chad, thousands of women have learned a whole new way to
cook. Instead of relying on the usual wood-fueled fires,
families are eating meals cooked by sunlight. Solar cooking
could be saving their lives.  More than 17,000 people live in
the Iridimi refugee camp in western Chad. Chad lies just to the
east of Sudan, next to the Darfur region, where civil war has
forced millions of people from their homes. Back in 2003, all
hell broke loose in Darfur when government forces cracked down
on Darfur rebels seeking social change to improve the lives of
black African Sudanese. What followed was an extraordinarily
violent conflict, with government forces and Arab Janjaweed
militias fighting non-Arab rebels and slaughtering civilians. As
of 2008, at least 200,000 people have been killed, and 2.5
million people are displaced [