Crucial farm jobs dry up in drought-stricken Morocco
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. Now Loubaoui fears he will end up like the roughly 159,000 Moroccan agricultural workers who, official figures say, have lost their jobs since early last year. "Work has become hard to come by because of drought," Loubaoui told AFP. Large areas of the Mediterranean have been under "alert drought conditions"... Читать дальше...