by Yves Headlines have been mainly about the Syrian crisis and internally about a decision to freeze financial assets of 21 Lebanese bank directors and its unexpected suspension. The initial decision of the financial state attorney Ali Ibrahim to freeze…
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Beirut, Weekly Report # 6, February 28th, 2020
by Yves Two main headlines for this week. The spread of the coronavirus and the visit of the IMF team and its consequences. Last week, on Friday 21, a case of the coronavirus was detected on a 45-year-old Lebanese woman…
Beirut, Weekly Report # 5, February 21th, 2020
by Yves This week three main headlines: the internal political tensions, the visit of a technical assessment team from the IMF and military developments in the Idlib area in Syria. At the end of last week, on 14 February, Saad…
Beirut, Weekly Report # 4, February 14th, 2020
by Yves Most of the information of the week was about the meeting of the parliament, the vote of its program and the reaction of the street. “La république bunkérisée” (Lebanese Republic behind a bunker !) was the title of…