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Farmland inundated with saltwater, gradually eats away the soil in the Mediterranean town of Mutubes, in Kafr el-Sheikh province, Egypt, Friday, Sept. 9, 2022. The impact of climate change has long been obvious to farmers, in the creeping salt that eats away roots and cakes their fields, turning them barren. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

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Climate change and rising seas threaten Egypt’s breadbasket
By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press
Wed,11/02/22-1:07AM , 368 Reads
ROSETTA, Egypt (AP) — Sayed Abuel-Ezz has seen his crops wither from seawater before. As the Nile Delta farmer walks among his mango trees on his land not far from the Mediterranean Sea, he worries it will happen again despite spending the equivalent of tens of thousands of dollars to prevent it.
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ADDS CONTEXT ABOUT THE UNHCR FACILITY - Migrants line up outside a facility operated by the United Nation’s refugee agency, UNHCR, in Tripoli, Libya on Sept. 6, 2022. It’s one of the few safe places for migrants in the war-torn country. For years, powerful militias and traffickers have taken advantage of the desperation of migrants fleeing war and poverty and trying to reach Europe from Libya’s shores. (AP Photo)

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Video of child refugee in Libya sheds light on rampant abuse
By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press
Wed,09/07/22-12:57AM , 541 Reads
CAIRO (AP) — Cowering in a bare corner, the 15-year-old boy begs for mercy and holds up his arms, trying to fend off the rifle pointed at his face. “Where is the money? Where is the money?” the holder of the rifle barks, over and over.
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A man surveys the damage from clashes in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, Sunday, August 28 2022. Deadly clashes broke out Saturday in Libya's capital between militias backed by its two rival administrations, portending a return to violence amid a long political stalemate. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad)

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Libya capital remains tense a day after clashes kill over 30
By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press
Sun,08/28/22-6:59AM , 243 Reads
CAIRO (AP) — Militias patrolled nearly deserted streets in Libya’s capital Sunday, a day after clashes killed over 30 people, and ended Tripoli’s monthslong stretch of relative calm.
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Mariam Habeib, center, who lost six relatives in a fire at the Abu Sefein Coptic Christian Orthodox Church that killed 41 people during a Sunday service, receives condolences outside her house in the neighborhood of Imbaba, one of Egypt’s most densely populated, in Giza, Egypt, Aug. 16, 2022. For Habeib, the grief is never ending: She lost her older sister, two nieces and a niece's three young children. The tragedy left many families devastated, striking a Christian community that is one of the world’s oldest. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

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Family struck by grief after it loses 6 in Egypt church fire
By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press
Tue,08/23/22-1:12AM , 319 Reads
IMBABA, Egypt (AP) — For Mariam Habeib, the grief seems never ending: She lost her older sister, two nieces and a niece's three young children in an intense fire that engulfed a church in Egypt's capital during a recent service and k
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