Families and Lebanese society in the crisis
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The bakeries of North Lebanon will close their doors for lack of flour and fuel oil to ensure the production of bread.
Here, Lebanese people line up to buy bread after the central bank decided to end subsidies on fuel imports, in Sidon on August 13, 2021. REUTERS - AZIZ TAHER
By: Chantal Lorho Follow
49 mins
More than a year after the explosion in the port of Beirut which left more than 200 dead and left 300,000 people homeless, Lebanon continues to sink into crisis.
For the World Bank, it is even one of the “worst economic crises in history”.
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With the spectacular rise in prices and the unemployment rate, more than half of the population now lives below the poverty line.
77% of households do not have enough food or not enough money to buy it, forcing the authorities to put in place ration cards.
Despite aid from the international community, the country has fallen into a humanitarian crisis.
What consequences for women and children, the first victims of the collapse of Lebanon?
What are the prospects for families in the face of such a dark picture?
Will the announcement of a new government give them hope?
With :
Hyam Yared,
Lebanese writer and novelist, author of
Implosions
(Edition Equateurs)
A QR with
Paul Khalife,
RFI
correspondent
in Lebanon on the situation of women and children in Lebanon.
The testimony of Hoda, mother of a family
With the participation of the journalist of
France 24
,
Bilal Tarabey,
former correspondent of the channel
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