Drought | AW

Morocco

A Moroccan farmer checks an olive tree at a field in Meknes (AFP)

Morocco works on ‘digital transformation’ of agriculture

Iraq

A canal with low water level at the Al-Mashahada pumping station north of Baghdad, April 16. (AFP)

Despite full reservoirs, Iraq water woes far from over

Water

Rusted cisterns are seen at the Al-Mashahada pumping station north of Iraq's capital Baghdad, April 16. (AFP)

Despite full reservoirs, Iraq water woes far from over

Drought

Buffalos are seen in an empty riverbed in Umm Abbasiyat, some 60 kilometers east of Najaf, Iraq. (AFP)

Iraqi farmers fight to save cattle from drought

Desert

A girl carries cans to fill them with water in Katawane, near Nema in south-eastern Mauritania. (AFP)

Mauritania’s nomadic herders seek safe passage through drought

Water

Water-starved land. A view of the dried-up shore of an irrigation canal near the village of Sayyed Dakhil, south of Baghdad. (AFP)

In southern Iraq, drought tightens its grip

ISIS

A camel herder crosses the Yobe River on the outskirts of Damasak in north-eastern Nigeria. (AFP)

Jihadists, drought threaten pastoral life in Sahel region

rain

An Iraqi girl carries water at a camp for internally displaced people in Hammam al-Alil, last year. (AFP)

Iraq’s chronic water crisis won’t be fixed by rain gods

Drought

Moroccan children head to the Great Mosque of Sale to pray for rain, last November. (AFP)

Morocco braces for drought fallout