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“Policy responses by Lebanon’s leadership to these challenges have been highly inadequate,” the report said. Lebanon’s ruling class has failed to act on the country’s worst emergency in a generation, which was compounded by the coronavirus pandemic and a devastating explosion at Beirut port last August. This picture shows the grain silos at Beirut port, almost a year after the August 4 massive explosion that killed more than 200 people and injured scores of others, on May 27, 2021. (Joseph EID / AFP) The International Monetary Fund has offered assistance but the country’s politica...
Share: Lebanese soldiers pass burned tires as they clash with protesters, during a protest against deteriorating living conditions and strict coronavirus lockdown measures, in Tripoli, Lebanon, January 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) Lebanese citizens no longer have jobs to go to. Instead they attend funerals — for the victims of political assassinations, COVID-19 deaths, suicides, malnourished children, victims of state negligence, and those who simply lost the will to live. With each passing day there is an inferno of new tragedies for a nation that would be flourishing if not for the ...
Torching The Municipality: Lebanese Aoun Condemns Violent Clashes Between Protesters, Police in Tripoli Published January 30th, 2021 - 08:59 GMT A boy gestures as Lebanese anti-government protesters confront security forces while going around the homes of deputies and government officials in the northern port city of Tripoli to protest the economic situation and their role in leading the country to crisis, on January 28, 2021. Tripoli was already one of Lebanon's poorest areas before the coronavirus pandemic piled new misery onto a chronic economic crisis. Many of its residents have bee...
ONE person died and more than 200 protesters were injured in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, on Wednesday during the third day of demonstrations against poverty during the country’s coronavirus lockdown. Omar Tayba, 29, who sustained a bullet wound on Wednesday night, died in hospital as the protests met with a brutal response from the authorities. Clashes were broadcast live on television after hundreds of people took to the streets of Lebanon’s second-largest city, angry at a lack of economic support during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Internal Security Forces said that nine of their personn...