Nationwide protests in Lebanon further paralyse the country as it suffers one of the world's worst economic crises
About 80 percent of people in Lebanon now live in poverty after the Lebanese pound lost more than 90 percent of its value.
Thursday’s strike comes as the country’s ruling class has continued to do almost nothing to try and pull the country out of its meltdown rooted in decades of corruption and mismanagement. Taxi and truck drivers used their vehicles to block roads to protest a sharp increase in fuel prices as the government lifted subsidies. Their demand is to get subsidised fuel again.
About 80 percent of people in Lebanon live in poverty after the Lebanese pound lost more than 90 percent of its value.Human Rights Watch said in its World Report 2022 released on Thursday that “the corrupt and incompetent Lebanese authorities have deliberately” plunged the country into one of the worst economic crises in modern times, demonstrating a disregard for the rights of the population.
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