For the past several years, Lebanon has been in economic freefall. Its currency is close to worthless; its government is fractured and ineffective; there is almost no electric power, and there is less security. Lebanon's people are suffering. Special correspondent Leila Molana-Allen reports from Tripoli on a country in collapse.
Lebanon s most impoverished city, Tripoli s decades-long decline traces the history of marginalization in Lebanon - and warns of the desperation still to come
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