Mobilization is not weakening in Lebanon. Thousands of schoolchildren demonstrate Thursday, November 7, across the country to continue the challenge, sometimes blocking public administrations. This is the fourth week of an unprecedented popular uprising against the political class, accused of corruption and incompetence.

Waving Lebanese flags, hundreds of schoolchildren gathered in front of the Beirut Ministry of Education. Elsewhere in the capital, they organized a march, in the district of Achrafieh, wrapped in flags, going from one school to another to call their comrades to join the movement, found correspondents of the AFP.

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"How are we going to live ?"

"I challenge any politician or senior official to put their children in public education," said a schoolboy at the microphone of a Lebanese television, in front of the Ministry of Education. "The economy is bad, there is no work, tomorrow how are we going to live?", He added.

In Tripoli, the second largest city in the country, where the protest does not run out of steam, dozens of protesters gathered outside the offices of the Ministry of Telecommunications to prevent the entry of officials, according to an AFP correspondent.

In several coastal cities, including Jounieh or Chekka, north of Beirut, schoolchildren gathered in front of the public telephone company Ogero to prevent the opening of offices, according to the ANI news agency.

A ruling class deemed corrupt

In the predominantly Shiite cities of Nabatiyah and Baalbek, strongholds of the powerful Hezbollah movement, students and schoolchildren also demonstrated, according to the same source. In Saïda, a large southern city, schoolchildren rallied and protesters rallied in front of the Car Registration Authority to prevent the administration from opening its doors, according to ANI.

Since October 17, hundreds of thousands of protesters have invaded the squares of major cities to shout their anger at a ruling class deemed corrupt and incompetent, in a country in the grip of a serious economic crisis.

Prime Minister resigns

The uprising has resulted in the resignation of Prime Minister Saad Hariri and his government, which continues to manage current affairs. On Wednesday, the World Bank said the "most urgent step" for Lebanon was "the rapid formation of a government that meets the expectations of all Lebanese".

In case of persistent impasse, half of the population could sink into poverty and unemployment "increase sharply", warned the World Bank, after a meeting of a delegation with the Lebanese president, Michel Aoun . According to her, about a third of Lebanese already live below the poverty line.

With AFP