When the crisis feeds fraud: Lebanon’s other economy at war
In Lebanon, the war feeds a parallel economy of scams, abusive housing and false intermediaries. With more than 500,000 internally displaced persons and 45 per cent inflation, the crisis is turning the emergency into a market and exposing the most vulnerable to predation that worsens their survival.
More than 800,000 IDPs: Lebanon’s new emergency geography
With over 800,000 displaced, Lebanon is entering a new geography of emergency. The South is emptying, Beirut and Mount Lebanon are saturating and collective centres are increasing, transforming the territory into a space of forced circulation and lasting humanitarian crisis.
Beirut under tension: filtered neighbourhoods, suspected displaced persons, Lebanon facing the risk of parallel...
In Beirut, the expansion of strikes and the massive influx of internally displaced persons fuel neighbourhood filtering, suspicion and logic of local protection. The Lebanese capital is facing a growing risk of security fragmentation, without any change in formal militia order, where fear is re-establishing access to the common city.
