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Environmental expert: ‘No action has yet been taken’ to deal with the danger of asbestos in the Beirut port blast debris

Eight months have passed since the Aug. 4 explosion at the Beirut port, and yet no measures have been taken to deal with the risks posed by asbestos found in certain buildings and debris collected...

9 April 2021

Lebanon provides ‘updated’ data for central bank audit

BEIRUT — Lebanon has provided an auditing firm with “updated” information for a stalled forensic audit of the central bank demanded by the international community, the Finance Ministry said on...

9 April 2021

COVID-19 vaccine centers link appointment no-shows to health concerns over the jabs’ rare side effects

BEIRUT — Each day, hundreds of people fail to show up to their appointment to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Last week, 26,699 doses of the vaccine were administered, but 3,447 people missed their...

Emily Lewis, 9 April 2021

Lebanon has registered 2,500 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Forty-three more people have died, bringing the total death toll to 6,592

9 April 2021

German companies’ $5 billion Beirut port redevelopment proposal won’t be realized without political reform

BEIRUT — A group of German private companies, accompanied by Lebanese and German officials, presented an ambitious proposal on Friday to redevelop the Beirut port alongside a new commercial and...

Abby Sewell, 9 April 2021

German ambassador to Lebanon Andreas Kindl said international funding for the port redevelopment plan, if accepted by Lebanese authorities, would be contingent on political and economic reforms. The proposal includes creation of an independent trust to manage the financing

9 April 2021

German private companies have unveiled a proposal to redevelop Beirut’s port, with the storage area to be moved east across the Beirut River and the other side of the port to be turned into a park, businesses and residential buildings, requiring an investment of around $5 billion

9 April 2021

A curfew from 9:30 p.m. until 5 a.m. will begin on Monday and apply throughout the month of Ramadan. After 9:30 p.m., supermarkets and restaurants will be permitted to provide delivery services

9 April 2021

The central bank says that it has handed the documents requested by auditing firm Alvarez & Marsal to the government commissioner at BDL. The commissioner will transfer them to the Ministry of Finance

9 April 2021

The protesters also called for UNRWA to increase the proportion of Palestinian refugees benefiting from its social safety net program to 60%, the NNA says. Only 12% of refugees are currently enrolled in program, which provides both cash transfers and in-kind assistance

9 April 2021

The Joint Palestinian Action Command and popular committees from refugee camps in the Saida area protested outside UNRWA's local offices, demanding food baskets for all the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, the NNA reports

9 April 2021

Families of prisoners held a sit-in outside the Interior Ministry to demand that the government pass a general amnesty law, speed up trials, and solve overcrowding and reported food shortages in prisons, the NNA reports

9 April 2021

Higher Judicial Council head Suhail Abboud has rejected a request from the Beirut Bar Association that Ghassan Khoury be dismissed from his role as a public prosecutor investigating the Beirut port blast, the NNA reports

9 April 2021

Residents have stopped trucks on the Beddawi highway that were loaded with petrol and diesel reportedly intended to be smuggled into Syria. The army has been summoned to the scene and seized the trucks

9 April 2021

Port reconstruction, medical imports squeezed, BDL audit: Everything you need to know to start your Friday

Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. A delegation from Hamburg Port Consulting will present its proposal for restoring and revitalizing the Beirut port this...

9 April 2021