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    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Libya’s flood disaster was partly man-made

      Western governments should focus on supporting efforts to stabilise the country

      A survivor sits on the rubble of a destroyed building in Libya’s eastern city of Derna on September 18
    • 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
    • Saturday, 16 September, 2023
      ExplainerNatural disasters
      Catastrophic Libyan flooding fuelled by warming oceans

      An intense cyclone known as a ‘medicane’ led to more than 400mm of rain falling in 24 hours

    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      News in-depthLibya
      ‘All should resign’: Derna disaster unleashes wave of anger in Libya

      Citizens vent at officials who ignored warnings while the authorities look to absolve themselves of blame

      People walk past damaged houses in Derna, Libya,
    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      Person in the News
      Mohammed VI: Morocco’s monarch faces an earthquake-hit country

      The reserved king is trying to show he is in control following the most devastating tremor in 60 years

      A man in glasses and a dark-blue turban stands amid a background of a graphic shockwave and cracked concrete and a green pentagram from Morocco’s flag
    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      Richard Shirreff
      Western security depends on rebuilding Morocco

      Ukraine has shown that we cannot afford to be complacent about the threats spreading from the region

      A woman walks through the rubble next to her donkey as she tries to rescue her goat after this week’s deadly earthquake in Morocco
    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      Libya
      Libya flood victims buried in mass graves as anger builds over failed defences

      At least 5,500 people killed by disaster that devastated eastern city of Derna

      A digger stands next to the grave. The bodies are contained in white coverings
    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      ReviewHistory books
      Eighteen Days in October — how Israel turned the tide

      An enthralling account with contemporary resonance examines how Israel regained the initiative in 1973’s Yom Kippur war

    • 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
    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      Libya
      Libya’s divisions exposed in city laid waste by floods

      Recovery and rebuilding efforts hampered by country’s chaotic and fractured politics

      An overturned car among rubble next to a damaged building following a storm in Derna, Libya on September 12 2023
    • 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
      Middle East & North Africa
      Libya flooding leaves hundreds feared dead

      Storm Daniel crosses Mediterranean to strike north African coast, with reports of dam bursts causing devastation in city of Derna

      Vehicles piled up along a coastal road in Derna, Libya
    • 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
    • Monday, 11 September, 2023
      News in-depthMorocco
      ‘Completely destroyed’: Morocco’s mountain villages count human cost of earthquake

      The remote High Atlas region has borne the brunt of the most powerful quake to strike the country in 120 years

      A man walks past damaged buildings in Ouirgane, Morocco
    • 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
    • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
      Emerging markets
      Brics leaders invite 6 nations including Saudis and Iran to join bloc

      South African president Cyril Ramaphosa says countries will be admitted next year in ‘first phase of expansion process’

      South African president Cyril Ramaphosa speaks at the Brics summit in Johannesburg
    • 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
    • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
      Sudan
      More than 4mn Sudanese displaced by ‘senseless’ war, says UN

      6mn people ‘one step away’ from famine in 4-month conflict between warring generals, says refugee agency

      A Sudanese woman, who fled the conflict, in Chad
    • 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
    • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
      Rachman Review podcast23 min listen
      Sudan power struggle risks turning into civil war

      Hopes for a democratic transition are fading, putting regional stability in jeopardy

    • 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
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