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    Heba Saleh

    Cairo Correspondent

    Heba Saleh is the FT Cairo correspondent. She covers political, economic and business news across all of North Africa. She has been full time with the FT since 2008. Before that she worked for the BBC in both London and Cairo as a radio correspondent and radio producer. She has written for the Economist, the Irish Times and Middle East International.
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    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      News in-depthLibya
      ‘Brothers to the rescue’: Devastated Libyans search for survivors and answers

      A week after Storm Daniel, residents of Derna are still reeling from the destruction

      Fire and rescue brigades search for survivors: authorities have not communicated an official death toll as the scale of the disaster complicates the rescue mission
    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      Libya
      More than 5,000 bodies recovered in Libya flood disaster

      Death toll expected to rise after Storm Daniel devastates eastern city

      Men walk in the rubble of buildings destroyed by flooding in Derna, eastern Libya
    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      Morocco
      Morocco vows to rebuild as hopes fade for more earthquake survivors

      Government wants IMF and World Bank meetings set for Marrakech next month to proceed

      Damaged buildings in Marrakech’s Medina
    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      Natural disasters
      10,000 missing as floods hit Libya after Storm Daniel

      Large parts of coastal city of Derna swept away after dams burst

      A man in flood-hit Derna
    • Monday, 11 September, 2023
      Morocco
      Morocco gives no response to French offer to join quake rescue efforts

      Apparent diplomatic snub comes after Rabat welcomes help from other countries

      People look at ruined buildings after the earthquae
    • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
      Morocco
      Rescuers dig for quake survivors in Morocco

      At least 2,000 people have been killed but many more could still be trapped in collapsed buildings in mountain villages

      An elderly woman is given help in the wake of the earthquake in the mountain village of Tafeghaghte, south-west of Marrakesh
    • Saturday, 9 September, 2023
      Morocco
      Moroccan earthquake claims more than 2,000 lives

      Authorities appeal for blood donations as landslides impede rescue efforts in mountain villages

    • Monday, 28 August, 2023
      Libya
      Libya government in crisis after Israel says the countries held ‘historic’ talks

      High-level meeting prompts suspension of Tripoli’s foreign minister and unrest in pro-Palestinian nation

      Protesters in Tripoli burn a shirt showing Libyan foreign minister Najla Mangoush and her Israeli counterpart Eli Cohen
    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      Africa
      Wagner’s lucrative African operations thrown into post-Prigozhin limbo

      Founder’s demise casts fresh doubt over Russia’s ability to maintain mercenary deployments on the continent

    • Saturday, 19 August, 2023
      Morocco
      Morocco’s elite relieved as absentee monarch returns to base

      King’s trips abroad and friendship with martial arts fighter had sparked concern and stymied decision making

      Morocco’s King Mohammed VI attends a ceremony
    • Tuesday, 15 August, 2023
      Libya
      Clashes erupt between rival militias in Libya’s capital

      Violence shatters months of calm and closes Tripoli’s only functioning airport

      Smoke rises following clashes between rival armed groups in Tripoli on Wednesday
    • Friday, 11 August, 2023
      Middle East & North Africa
      More than half of young Arabs in Levant and north Africa pin hopes on emigrating

      Bleak economic outlook and high unemployment behind desire to leave home countries, survey finds

      Young Tunisians at an anti-government protest in Tunis in 2021
    • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
      Wildfires
      Dozens die in Algerian wildfires as temperatures soar towards 50C

      Blistering heat across Mediterranean region spreads to dry and mountainous parts of north Africa

      People looking at burned out vehicles
    • Sunday, 16 July, 2023
      EU immigration
      Tunisia agrees deal with EU to tackle Mediterranean migration routes

      Brussels to provide €100mn to strengthen border controls as numbers crossing to Italy by boat double in a year

      Tunisia’s Maritime National Guard intercepts a boat trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea
    • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
      Egypt
      Egypt announces $1.9bn sale of state assets

      First significant privatisations aimed at raising foreign currency revenue to shore up its pound

      An engineer watches as molten iron is poured into a container at Ezz Steel’s factory in Sadat City, Egypt
    • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
      EU immigration
      Tunisia accused of dumping migrants on Libya border

      Hundreds said to be trapped in desert with no food or water while EU tries to stem flow

    • Tuesday, 4 July, 2023
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Turkey and Egypt upgrade diplomatic ties as relations thaw

      Ambassadors appointed to each other’s capitals for first time in a decade after rupture over coup in Cairo

      Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, shaking hands at the football World Cup in Qatar last year
    • Tuesday, 27 June, 2023
      Egypt
      Critics of Egypt’s regime given rare platform ahead of elections

      Opposition hopes ‘National Dialogue’ will prompt concessions but activists say it is aimed at polishing the state’s image

      Anti-government protesters in Cairo in 2019
    • Sunday, 11 June, 2023
      Global migration
      EU offers Tunisia over €1bn to stem migration

      Brussels proposes €255mn in grants for Tunis, linking longer-term loans of up to €900mn to reforms

      Dutch PM Mark Rutte (left), EU’s Ursula von der Leyen (centre) and Italian premier Giorgia Meloni (right) met Tunisian president Kais Saied (centre) on Sunday
    • Thursday, 8 June, 2023
      News in-depthConservative Party UK
      Mohamed Mansour: the tycoon behind the Tories’ biggest donation in decades

      Egyptian-born billionaire lived ‘hand to mouth’ after Nasser nationalised his father’s company but now owns a sprawling conglomerate

      Mohamed Mansour during a press conference after becoming co-owner of a new Major League Soccer club in San Diego, California, in May
    • Saturday, 3 June, 2023
      Israel
      Three Israeli soldiers shot dead on Egyptian border

      Egyptian assailant was killed after Israeli military went in search of comrades

    • Tuesday, 16 May, 2023
      News in-depthEgypt
      Egypt’s exchange rate uncertainty stifling business, say entrepreneurs

      Industries struggling to fund imports and lure investors amid foreign currency crisis

      People crowd a street in Cairo, Egypt
    • Monday, 8 May, 2023
      News in-depthSudan
      Sudanese fleeing terror in Khartoum make perilous journey to Egypt

      Traumatised families speak of worsening conditions in Khartoum as they seek refuge in neighbouring states

      Passengers fleeing Sudan arrive at Wadi Karkar bus station in Aswan, Egypt
    • Sunday, 7 May, 2023
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Arab League to readmit Syria after decade-long hiatus

      Damascus was banned from regional organisation following brutal crackdown against 2011 uprising

    • Wednesday, 3 May, 2023
      The Big Read
      The ‘slow coup’ taking Tunisia back to autocracy

      President Saied is dismantling the institutions that a decade earlier had made the country a beacon for democracy in the Arab world

      A photo of Kais Saied with a background of a protest against him
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