Moroccan villagers keep communal store tradition alive

High in the rugged hills some 460km south of the capital Rabat, Ait Kine is home to one of country's few remaining collective granaries, or agadir in Amazigh - Morocco's Berber language. Photo: AFP

Surrounded by olive and palm trees in a Moroccan mountain village, a centuries-old collective granary preserves the ancient practices of the Amazigh culture.

"The traditions are vanishing, but not here," said proud village elder Hossine Oubrahim, in Ait Kine in the Anti-Atlas mountains.