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font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">In Morocco's southeastern desert, a rare downpour has brought lakes and ponds back to life, with locals — and tourists — hailing it as a gift from the heavens.</p> <p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 47, 58); font-family: Merriweather-Light, Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">In Merzouga, a tourist town about 600 kilometers southeast of the capital, Rabat, the once-parched golden dunes are now dotted with replenished ponds and lakes.</p> <p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 47, 58); font-family: Merriweather-Light, Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"We're incredibly happy about the recent rains," said Youssef Ait Chiga, a local tour guide leading a group of German tourists to Yasmina Lake nestled amid Merzouga's dunes.</p> <p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 47, 58); font-family: Merriweather-Light, Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Khalid Skandouli, another tour guide, said the rain has drawn even more visitors to the tourist area, now particularly eager to witness this odd transformation.</p> <p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 47, 58); font-family: Merriweather-Light, Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">With him, Laetitia Chevallier, a French tourist and regular visitor to the region, said the rainfall has proved a "blessing from the sky."</p> <p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 47, 58); font-family: Merriweather-Light, Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"The desert became green again, the animals have food again, and the plants and palm trees came back to life," she said.</p> <p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 47, 58); font-family: Merriweather-Light, Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Locals told AFP the basin had been barren for nearly 20 years.</p> <p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 47, 58); font-family: Merriweather-Light, Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">But this September, torrential rains triggered floods in southern parts of Morocco, killing at least 28 people, according to authorities.</p> <p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 47, 58); font-family: Merriweather-Light, Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; 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text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Last year was Morocco's driest in 80 years, with a 48% drop in rainfall, according to an October report from the General Directorate of Meteorology.</p> <p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 47, 58); font-family: Merriweather-Light, Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Neighboring Algeria saw similar rain and flooding in early September, killing six people.</p> <p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 47, 58); font-family: Merriweather-Light, Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">North African countries currently rank among the world's most water-stressed, according to the World Resources Institute, a nonprofit research organization.</p> <p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 47, 58); font-family: Merriweather-Light, Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 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attributed it to an unusual shift of the intertropical convergence zone, the equatorial region where winds from the northern and southern hemispheres meet, causing thunderstorms and heavy rainfall.</p> <p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 47, 58); font-family: Merriweather-Light, Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Everything suggests that this is a sign of climate change," Fatima Driouech, a Moroccan climate scientist, told AFP. 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