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    Lebanon in a limbo

    22 Jun 2021

    Lebanon is in the midst of a serious crisis. The economic situation has pushed tens of thousands people into poverty and the government has resigned amid growing public anger. When will this political crisis be over? EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell

    Lebanon’s cash woes are ringing louder

    24 Aug 2021

    Lebanon’s acute financial morass is hurtling the country towards perdition. The choice is now up to its leaders to decide whether to come to a workable solution or entertain more chaos and insecurity. Fuel paucity has thrown essential services

    UNHCR says world should send pledged aid to Afghans to avert economic, refugee crisis

    10 Oct 2021

    "The humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan remains really dire," Babar Baloch, spokesperson for the UN High Commmissioner for Refugees, said in an interview in Islamabad.

    Lebanon: The multiple crises-hit country

    01 Aug 2021

    The honeymoon between Lebanese President Michel Aoun and newly designated Prime Minister Najib Mikati lasted only four days. Mikati was initially upbeat about his appointment and projected optimism over the early formation

    Crisis-hit Lebanon gets new cabinet after 13-month wait

    10 Sep 2021

    The new cabinet of 24 ministers headed by Najib Mikati, a billionaire businessman, was announced by the president’s office and later by the Secretary-General of the Council of Ministers, Mahmoud Makkieh.

    Strategy needed to avert a global education crisis

    02 Aug 2021

    COVID-19 has been an earthquake along the already fraught fault lines of global education. The result is a deep chasm into which the most vulnerable have fallen: 1.6 billion children were out of education at the height of school closures. If we do not act now

    Lebanese protesters block roads over economic meltdown

    29 Nov 2021

    Lebanon's economic crisis, which erupted in 2019, has propelled more than three quarters of the population into poverty and the local currency has plummeted by over 90%.

    Rising bread, fuel prices push Sudan to the brink

    21 Mar 2022

    Bread has become unaffordable for many people in Sudan, and so has the making of bread. Mohammed now has to spend 27,000 Sudanese pounds if he were to but bread for a family of six in a month, which is nearly the whole of his salary of

    Colombo calm after Sri Lanka declares state of emergency

    07 May 2022

    Details of the latest emergency regulations were not yet made public, but previous emergency laws have given greater powers to the president to deploy the military, detain people without charge and break up protests.

    Lebanese economy teetering on the edge

    14 Apr 2022

    It is a dire situation in Lebanon. The economy is teetering on the edge. There is an acute bread shortage, and people are on the brink of no food in the month of Ramadan, the holy period of fasting. Lebanon’s Economy

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