UN Secretary-General António Guterres has officially appointed Ján Kubiš, the UN’s special coordinator for Lebanon, as his special envoy on Libya and head of the UN Support Mission in Libya, according to a statement by the international organization

The ISF has issued a warning for people not to open a link being circulated in a WhatsApp message purporting to offer LL400,000 in aid in exchange for registering. The link aims to steal information from recipients’ devices for later use in fraud, the statement said

The chairperson of the Spinneys supermarket chain has called on authorities to exempt supermarkets from delivery-only restrictions and allow people to obtain permission to shop in-store via the state’s COVID-19 IMPACT travel permission app, the NNA reports

Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport recorded a 71 percent drop in passenger traffic in 2020 from the previous year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to statistics published by the NNA

Refugee settlements in Arsal were inundated in last night's downpour, with ankle-deep pools of standing water remaining today. A local NGO worker told L'Orient Today that, despite the lockdown, NGOs had been able to move around freely to distribute supplies in the flooded camps

Farmers are selling approximately 80 percent less produce due to the COVID-19 lockdown limiting supermarkets and restaurants to operating via delivery only, the head of the Bekaa Farmers Association, Ibrahim Tarshishi, tells L'Orient Today

BDL’s latest interim balance sheet shows an increase of LL1.46 trillion in circulation outside the central bank in the first half of January, putting the total over LL32 trillion, despite policies to lower it. The average biweekly increase in 2020 was around LL850 million