Lebanon at a turning point

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Things were already bad in Lebanon before the huge double explosion at the port of Beirut on 4 August: there was a serious economic crisis and sharply rising unemployment; the army had been deployed to prevent social unrest and people faced rising Covid-19 cases. The port explosions killed almost 200, injured almost 7,000 and destroyed much of the capital. Some 300,000 are now homeless in Beirut and 70,000 are unemployed. The hopes raised by last year’s 17 October protest movement now seem distant.

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