Anna McCaffrey, Will Todman Nearly 2,500 new Covid-19 cases are confirmed each day in Lebanon, an untenable number in a country reeling from concurrent economic, political, and...

Abeer Abu Omar Lebanon’s annual inflation rate reached a record high and food prices soared by around 400 percent in December, highlighting the dramatic impact...

Donors insist that Lebanon agrees on the makeup of new government, roots out corruption, sources tell Reuters. https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/4/2/germany-plans-beirut-port-reconstruction-with-conditions-report

Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, more than 1.2 million children in Lebanon have been out of school. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/1/many-of-lebanons-children-risk-never-returning-to-school-report

Vanda Felbab-Brown On March 10, 2021, Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies legalized production of cannabis for industrial, medical, and recreational purposes. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/03/30/mexicos-cannabis-legalization-and-comparisons-with-colombia-lebanon-and-canada/

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian tells Lebanese leaders seven months of political deadlock in forming a cabinet are worsening the nation’s economic crisis. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/29/france-heightens-pressure-on-lebanon-to-form-government

Nabih Berri calls for urgent action to form a government, as Parliament approves crisis funding to avert power blackout. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/29/lebanon-could-sink-like-titanic-says-parliament-speaker

Lebanese military intelligence officers have committed violations against Syrian refugees including torture, Amnesty says. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/23/i-wish-i-would-die-syrian-refugees-tortured-in-lebanon

Kareem Chehayeb Protests flare as Lebanon’s currency spirals and political tensions rise. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/22/were-sick-of-them-lebanon-economy-freefalls-as-leaders-bicker

Anchal Vohra Lebanon hosts the largest per capita population of Syrian refugees in the world, providing shelter to 1.7 million. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/19/syrian-refugees-in-lebanon-ten-years-after-the-uprising

President Michel Aoun tells PM-designate Saad Hariri either to step down or form a government as soon as possible to tackle the country’s economic...

The European Union, United Nations, and World Bank confirmed a deal between Lebanon’s central cank and its deputy prime minister to distribute aid in...

  Sahar Atrache To avert a catastrophe in Lebanon, foreign donors need to change how they deliver aid to the country. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/3/16/lebanon-needs-an-aid-paradigm-shift

Makram Rabah, Ali al-Amin, Alia Mansour Three Lebanese experts explore Beirut’s precarious politics, Hezbollah’s continued ability to evade accountability, and the Biden administration’s options. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/lebanons-predicament-political-stagnation-and-economic-collapse-hezbollah-dominated

Demonstrators blocked various roadways across Lebanon for the fifth day in a row Saturday, and a heavy army presence filled parts of the capital...

Caretaker PM appeals to politicians to put aside differences and form a new government as anger simmers over Lebanon’s financial crisis. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/7/protests-continue-as-lebanons-hassan-diab-threatens-to-stop-work