Tag: Lebanon
Lebanon / Crisis: 201% inflation over one year
The central statistics office said prices rose 178.4% in the first 11 months of the year, compared to 127.3 in the corresponding period of...
Lebanon / Crisis: 8.3% recession in 2021 (Bloomberg)
The Lebanese GDP would have fallen by 8.3% in 2021, indicates Bloomberg on the basis of the semi-annual estimates of its economists. Previous estimates...
Lebanese Forces condition opening of extraordinary parliamentary session to end cabinet paralysis
From a media source, it is indicated that the Lebanese forces are conditioning the signing of the petition of the Amal movement calling for...
Lebanese pound close to 30,000 LL / USD threshold
The Lebanese pound continues to collapse and is at its all-time low early this morning on the black market with an exchange rate of...
The Amal Movement tries to force the opening of an extraordinary session of parliament...
Members of the Amal movement are said to be circulating a petition to organize an extraordinary legislative session after the end of the current...
Lebanon: Fuel prices rise for the first week of 2022
The price of fuels is rising sharply on Tuesday, January 4, 2022, indicates the first price list published by the general directorate of petroleum.
The...
Ali Hassan Khalil responds to Gébran Bassil and accuses him of having paralyzed the...
However, subject to an arrest warrant issued in early November by Judge Tarek Bitar as part of the investigation into the explosion in the...
Lebanon urgently needs $ 6 billion (Al Diyar)
The daily Al Diyar indicates that the Lebanese economy should be heavily impacted by the rise in the prices of raw materials, in particular...
Gebran Bassil tries to divide Hezbollah and the Amal movement
Speaking this Sunday, January 2, the president of the Courant Patriotique Libre Gébran Bassil strongly attacked the president of the chamber Nabih Berri, accused...
Lebanon / Coronavirus: Concerns are confirmed with 4,537 cases and 15 deaths
The Ministry of Health indicates that 4,537 cases of people infected with the COVID19 coronavirus have been diagnosed in the past 24 hours. 15...
Lebanon hopes for agreement with IMF in February
After having hoped for the conclusion of a memorandum of understanding with the IMF at the end of the year, a deadline which today...
Captagon in oranges bound for Kuwait intercepted at the Port of Beirut
The Lebanese authorities announced this Wednesday, December 29, 2021 that they had seized a large quantity of Captagon pills hidden inside orange. This shipment...
Saudi Arabia reiterates call on Lebanese leaders to « stop Hezbollah’s hegemony over the state »
Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz called on Lebanese leaders to stop "Hezbollah's hegemony over the state" before the Kingdom's Shura council. The Saudi leader...
