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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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  • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
    News in-depthLibya
    Warlord’s iron grip on eastern Libya survives flood outrage

    Khalifa Haftar brooks no dissent and is expected to enjoy reconstruction ‘bonanza’

    People sit among the rubble in Derna, Libya, following a deadly flash flood
  • 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

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