Cairo, the capital of Egypt, is a bustling metropolis that sits on the banks of the River Nile. Home to an estimated 22 million people, the city has more recently expanded into a sprawling jumble ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is an FT contributing editor At the farmers’ market on Detroit Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan ...

Despite millions of hectares of arable land, the spreading violence has meant that the farmers who fed the country and the region are on the verge of mass starvation. We stood at a military ...