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The Al Soor II oil tanker, which had been delayed by the Suez Canal closure on its way to Lebanon’s Zahrani power plant, has arrived off the Saida coast, the Marine Traffic ship tracking site shows. An EDL source could not immediately say when the ship’s cargo will be offloaded
2 April 2021
Lebanon has registered 2,963 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Sixty more people have died, bringing the total death toll to 6,346
2 April 2021
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has tested positive for COVID-19 after experiencing several days of “mild symptoms,” the party said in a statement, adding that Geagea is doing “very well” and his symptoms are beginning to recede
2 April 2021
The European Investment Bank has said in a statement it “is aware of the proposal put forward by the port of Hamburg and its consultancy team” for Beirut port reconstruction, but that the EIB has made no financing offer as yet, as it would first require due diligence procedures
2 April 2021
Lebanon must ration subsidies before reserves run out at the end of May, Wazni says
BEIRUT — Lebanon will run out of money to fund basic imports by the end of May and delays in launching a plan to reduce subsidies are costing $500 million a month, the caretaker finance minister,...
2 April 2021
Pushing for passage of a plan to scale down import subsidies, caretaker Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni has told Reuters that at the current rate of subsidy spending, Lebanon will run out of foreign currency to fund basic imports by the end of May
2 April 2021
German ambassador to Lebanon Andreas Kindl said in a statement that a group of private companies has prepared a study and proposal for redevelopment of the Beirut port and will come to Beirut next week to present it. He added that it is not an initiative of the German government
2 April 2021
Is Tehran blocking the formation of a new government in Lebanon?
What is preventing the formation of a new government in Lebanon? This is the million-dollar question that everyone has been trying to answer for months now. Could it be possible, given the...
Mounir RABIH, 2 April 2021
Abdul Rahman Bizri, the head of the national committee on COVID-19 vaccines, told Al Jadeed that it was confirmed today that 1.5 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine will arrive in Lebanon in the next three months
2 April 2021
Germany is preparing to present a multi-billion-dollar proposal for redevelopment of the Beirut port, to be carried out by a Solidere-type firm with European Investment Bank funding, contingent on Lebanese officials forming a government that can carry out reforms, Reuters reports
2 April 2021
Germany is set to propose Beirut port reconstruction with ‘strings attached,’ sources say
PARIS/BERLIN/BEIRUT — Germany will next week present a multi-billion-dollar proposal to Lebanese authorities to rebuild the Port of Beirut as part of efforts to entice the country’s politicians to...
