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A man and woman walk through one of the many covered passageways in Ait Bounou, an ancient kasbah, or fortified village, in the Moroccan Sahara. The town is quickly falling into ruin as the inhabitants flee the drying well and the advancement of the dunes expedited by a 16-year drought and the damming of the Draa River.

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A man and woman walk through one of the many covered passageways in Ait Bounou, an ancient kasbah, or fortified village, in the Moroccan Sahara. The town is quickly falling into ruin as the inhabitants flee the drying well and the advancement of the dunes expedited by a 16-year drought and the damming of the Draa River.