'We're in a war for survival': Onboard the cash-strapped Lebanese army's fundraising helicopter flights
'We're in a war for survival': Onboard the cash-strapped Lebanese army's fundraising helicopter flights Lebanon's military has begun offering tourist flights to raise funds amid the country's grave economic crisis 3 July 2021 • 7:00am From the air, Lebanon looks like a tourist paradise. At street level, round-the-block fuel lines, electricity blackouts, mounting poverty and angry protests indicate a country collapsing, 20 months into an economic crisis that squabbling elites are unwilling to address. From above though the azure of the Mediterranean gives way to cedar-clad mountains and then...
Source: telegraph.co.uk