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Intl organizations warn of escalating humanitarian crisis in Lebanon-

UNDP issued the following statement on Monday:The Government of Canada and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are reaffirming their commitment to enhancing community security and access to justice at this particularly diffic...

Lebanon launches reconstruction project of Beirut explosions-

Lebanon launches reconstruction project of Beirut explosions-

Lebanon launches reconstruction project of Beirut explosions-

Framework providers should cut costs for contractors bidding to joining them, commercial director for the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Noreen Winhall

Right after the devastating blast in the port of Beirut, Lebanon’s civil society swung into action, its skills well practiced after a series of national crises created or made worse by chronic political dysfunction. The result, one year later, is the emergence of a vigorous and competent movement that has seized the reins of rebuilding and convinced donors to bypass corrupt government institutions. “Civil society managed to organize themselves into a pseudo-government. ... It was extraordin...

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Mr President, when Australians first heard of the explosion at the port of Beirut, it was an incomprehensible disaster. The mobile phone videos of the sudden explosion, with its massive white shock wave, were truly horrifying. The detonation was so large that it registered on the global detection network of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organisation. More than 215 people died, more than 7,000 were injured, and more than 300,000 were displaced ...

As Lebanon endures one of its worst financial and economic crises ever, the UN estimates that over the next eight months around $300 million is needed to provide vital aid to around 1.5 million Lebanese and 400,000 migrant workers living there.

English Appeal on Lebanon about Coordination, Education, Epidemic, Technological Disaster and more; published on 30 Apr 2021 by OCHA