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The unfolding struggle for political survival in Lebanon April 27, 2021 Share Lebanon’s political leaders are getting deeper into trouble, and they know it. This does not make them any less dangerous. Recurring skirmishes over cabinet formation — namely those referencing constitutional powers, cabinet size, sectarian representation, and ministerial allocation — continue to dominate the public discourse and waste precious time. They remain, however, peripheral to the central issue th...

BEIRUT: A Lebanese judge who defied a decision dismissing her from an investigation into possible currency export breaches has been summoned for a meeting on Tuesday with the country’s Supreme Judicial Council. Judge Ghada Aoun, who was referred to the Judicial Inspection Authority because of more than 20 complaints against her, can be deemed incompetent by the vote of five council members and five authority members. Aoun had been investigating the Mecattaf money exchange company and Societe ...

BEIRUT: Controversial Lebanese judge and Mount Lebanon state prosecutor Ghada Aoun carried out a second raid on a money exchange in northern Lebanon on Saturday in defiance of a senior judiciary decision dismissing her from an investigation into possible currency export breaches. Aoun was accompanied by several activists from the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) during the raid on the money exchange in the Awkar district in northern Lebanon. Less than 24 hours earlier she raided the office with me...

MISSOURI, USA/ BEIRUT: Syria has signed a four-year oil and gas exploration deal with a Russian company in Mediterranean waters that Lebanon claims as its own. The two blocks to be explored under the new contract overlap with Lebanese maritime areas for energy exploration along the country’s northern border. Yet Lebanese outrage has been conspicuous by its absence. Now imagine

Wednesday, 7 April, 2021 - 10:00 A man stands next to graffiti at the damaged port area in the aftermath of a massive explosion in Beirut, Lebanon August 11, 2020. REUTERS/Hannah McKay Beirut- Paula Astih A year before the parliamentary elections of May 2022, most political parties and civil society groups began preparing for the electoral race, which constitutes a great challenge for the ruling parties, after the October 17, 2019...

Published date: Samedi 5 octobre 2019 - 08:26 | Last update: 1 année 6 mois ago "Whatever campaigns are launched against me, and whatever they say, write, or do, I will keep working and not stop." This was the first statement put out by Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri in a tweet following a New York Times article revealing that the billionaire premier splashed some $16m on South African model Candice van der Merwe in 2013. Van der Merwe stood tri...

General Joseph Aoun- army chief With the words “Where are you taking us,” Lebanese army commander Gen. Joseph Aoun last week addressed the country’s political elite. For the first time, the head of the military showed a confrontational attitude toward the civilian authority. “The people are hungry and the army that is part of the people is hungry too.” That is how Aoun described the situation. The commander explained that, if the army breaks up, the existence of Lebanon as an entity w...

Monday, 15 March, 2021 - 11:30 A crowd of Lebanese people pack Martyrs’ Square to mark the first anniversary of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri in Beirut, Lebanon February 14, 2006. REUTERS/Jamal Saidi/File Photo Beirut - Caroline Akoum On the 16th anniversary of the withdrawal of the Syrian army from Lebanon in the wake of the Cedar Revolution, political parties and groups, who took part in it, no l...

The assassination of Lokman Slim – silencing no lamb Lokman’s killing underlines that the space for dissent is closing fast in Lebanon. Over the past year or so, the political leadership’s tolerance for criticism has been decreasing, with an increasing number of journalists and critics taken into custody. Maha Yahya reflects The killing of Lokman Slim is another bad omen for Lebanon. Lokman was not just any activist. He was a vocal critic of Hezbollah, who chose to continue living in his ...

Hassan Diab said only a new government can tackle Lebanon’s social and economic crises