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Lebanon desperately needs an economic vision for reforms, but experts say the 2021 budget proposal doesn't deliver
BEIRUT — The road map for dealing with Lebanon’s spiraling financial crisis and the collapse of its national currency begins with the state budget, yet caretaker Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni has...
Omar Tamo, 17 February 2021
Large parts of Lebanon have been without electricity since the early afternoon after a power generation unit in Zahrani was disconnected from the electrical network due to a lightning strike, an EDL source told L’Orient-Le Jour
17 February 2021
An EDL technical team had to switch off electricity generators at the Zahrani station until the weather became more stable, the source said, adding that some turbines and engines have gone back into service
17 February 2021
Lebanon has registered 2,479 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Sixty more people have died, bringing the total death toll to 4,152
17 February 2021
Parliamentary media committee head Hussein Hajj Hasan, a Hezbollah MP, said that “when anything is broadcast targeting a specific audience” it will provoke a reaction. His comments after today’s committee meeting follow the blocking of MTV in Hezbollah’s areas of influence
17 February 2021
In virus-hit Lebanon, seamstresses stitch body bags
SAIDA — In a Lebanon textile workshop, Umm Omar recalled making school uniforms and holiday garments — before surging coronavirus cases forced her into the grim business of body bags....
17 February 2021
The Syndicate of Private Hospitals has sent a letter to the caretaker health minister and chairperson of the National Social Security Fund proposing for hospital bills to be priced at an exchange rate of LL3,900 to the US dollar, instead of the official peg of LL1507.5
17 February 2021
Caretaker Health Minister Hamad Hassan met with Russia’s envoy to Lebanon to discuss facilitating the import of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, the NNA reports. Lebanon’s national committee on COVID-19 vaccines approved on Feb. 5 the emergency use of the Russian inoculation
17 February 2021
At a time of unprecedented strain on mental health, psychiatric medications are in short supply
BEIRUT — Starting around her home in Chiyah, before driving over to Hazmieh and then to Hadath: this is the route Sabine follows in search of psychiatric medications for her daughter, Lynn, who has...
Rana Tabbara, 17 February 2021
For the first time since July 2020, the exchange rate at shops selling dollars has risen above LL9,000. The lira had been trading just shy of LL9,000 to the dollar for nearly a month
17 February 2021
Lebanon’s Traffic Management Center asks residents not to park vehicles near trees and billboards due to volatile weather. Snowfall has blocked mountain roads across the country, including the Hermel – Qobeiyat, Aqoura – Hadath Baalbeck and Ainata – Al-Arz routes, the NNA reports
17 February 2021
Ministry’s demand for aid recipients’ personal details halts some humanitarian assistance programs during lockdown
BEIRUT — Some humanitarian aid initiatives have ground to a halt after the Ministry of Interior and Municipalities issued a requirement last week that organizations seeking permission to provide...
Abby Sewell, 17 February 2021
Vaccine controversy, World Bank program discord, Nasrallah talks politics: Everything you need to know today
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . COVID-19 deaths were on the rise again yesterday in Lebanon as controversy swirled over a former general accused of skipping the...
