Morocco volunteers on Sahara clean-up mission

In southern Morocco, volunteers are hunting for waste embedded in the sand, and they do not have to look far. Bottles, plastic bags -- "there are all kinds", noted one helper who has joined the initiative cleaning up the edge of a village bordering the Sahara. The initiative marks the 20th International Nomads Festival, which is held in mid-April every year in M'Hamid El Ghizlane in Zagora province in southeast Morocco. Around 50 people, gloved and equipped with rubbish bags, toiled away for five...