Crucial farm jobs dry up in drought-stricken Morocco
Sidi Slimane, Morocco (AFP) July 13, 2024
In a sun-baked village north of Morocco's capital Rabat, Mustapha Loubaoui and other itinerant workers wait idly by the roadside for farm work made scarce by a six-year drought. Loubaoui, 40, rode his combine harvester for 280 kilometres (175 miles) hoping to pick up work in what previously had been the booming agricultural village of Dar Bel Amri. His day-long journey was for nothing.
