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Qatar to provide 70 tons of food per month for a year to Lebanese Army July 06 2021 11:01 PM Text Size:    President of the Republic of Lebanon General Michel Aoun met Tuesday with HE the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani. At the outset of the meeting, HE the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs conveyed the greetings of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani to the Lebanese president and the Amir's wishes to the president of the best of health and the government and people of Lebanon continued p...

SHARE In late May, the commander of the Lebanese Army, Joseph Aoun, was received in Paris by the French president Emmanuel Macron. The singular nature of the meeting – presidents don’t normally receive army chiefs from small countries – underlined the importance that France gives to Lebanon’s armed forces as an agent of stability at a time when Lebanon is collapsing economically and socially. There appears to be a consensus among foreign governments that the army must not be allowed to fragment because of the Lebanese state’s bankruptcy. Indeed, an international conference has been ...

The Lebanese army scrapped meat from soldiers’ meals in June because of the increase in food prices caused by the country’s worst-ever economic crisis. Lebanon depends on imports to feed itself, and the crash of the local currency in the past year and a half has triggered hyper-inflation. The latest government figures show that the price of food increased by 417 per cent in the past year. In parallel, soldiers’ monthly wages went from being worth on average $866 a month to just over $100. Early in March, Gen Aoun said in a speech that soldiers were going hungry. “Where are we going? W...

Lebanese commander warns of funding crisis 09 March 2021 by Nicholas Blanford General Joseph Aoun, the commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), has taken the unprecedented step of publicly urging Lebanese politicians to tackle the grave economic and financial crisis gripping the country, warning that failure to do so could lead to a collapse. Gen Aoun criticised Lebanon’s politicians in a speech publicised by the LAF. (Lebanese Armed Forces) “Everyone is suffering because of the political and economic situation,” he told a gathering of senior officers on 8 March in a speech release...