Buildings reduced to rubble by bombing in Beirut's southern suburbs. (Credit: Mohammad Yassine/L'Orient-Le Jour)
One of the government’s priorities will be to work on the “reconstruction of villages and houses destroyed in southern Lebanon, the Bekaa and Beirut to allow residents to return to their homes,” stated designated Prime Minister Nawaf Salam after meeting with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Jan. 14. This is a colossal task as the country has been mired for more than five years in a severe economic and financial crisis that has significantly restricted the state's maneuvering room — while under the tight control of the central bank to maintain monetary stabilization — and Israel has yet to fully withdraw its troops by Jan. 27. Read more Finance Ministry: ‘Singing the same old song’? For now, the only semblance of a strategy is a “bill aimed at rebuilding buildings damaged by the Israeli aggression against Lebanon,” approved by...
One of the government’s priorities will be to work on the “reconstruction of villages and houses destroyed in southern Lebanon, the Bekaa and Beirut to allow residents to return to their homes,” stated designated Prime Minister Nawaf Salam after meeting with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Jan. 14. This is a colossal task as the country has been mired for more than five years in a severe economic and financial crisis that has significantly restricted the state's maneuvering room — while under the tight control of the central bank to maintain monetary stabilization — and Israel has yet to fully withdraw its troops by Jan. 27. Read more Finance Ministry: ‘Singing the same old song’? For now, the only semblance of a strategy is a “bill aimed at rebuilding buildings damaged by the Israeli aggression against...
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