Morocco: Dreams of Europe As Drought-Hit Morocco Prays for Better Times

Nairobi — When 2007 arrived and the winter rains had still not fallen, Morocco's religious leaders led anxious prayers to avert a rural catastrophe, quoting from the Koran: "And it is he who makes the rains fall after we have despaired, and spreads his grace."

The months passed but clouds scudded over the kingdom's central plains without shedding their load and in the fields near the central Moroccan town of Khouribga, seeds grew into stunted crops.

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