By Noemi Jabois Bebnine, Lebanon, Nov 5 (EFE).- A one-year-old baby cries inconsolably as nurses try to insert an IV at a makeshift hospital set up in the basement of a mosque in Bebnine, the epicenter of the first cholera outbreak in Lebanon in nearly 30 years. As soon as he is placed in his …
By Noemi Jabois Beirut, Aug 1 (EFE).- Nearly two years after a massive blast rocked the port of Beirut, many residents have been re-living the trauma for weeks due to a persistent fire at the ruins of the port’s grain silos, risking a total collapse. The silos housed most of Lebanon’s grain reserves from the …
By Noemi Jabois Beirut, May 14 (EFE).- Lebanon heads to the polls Sunday for a decisive parliamentary election amid widespread discontent over the economic crisis and few expectations that the fragmented opposition can snatch the majority from the Shiite group Hezbollah and its allies. Overseas voting last week registered a 63% turnout and more than …
By Noemi Jabois Beirut, May 9 (EFE).- Ahead of the European Union’s donor conference for Syria, NGOs in the Arab country warn that people’s needs are deepening more than before amid a serious economic crisis exacerbated by Russia’s war in Ukraine. The sixth Brussels conference on supporting the future of Syria and the region starting …
By Noemi Jabois and Ana Maria Guzelian Beirut, Mar 4 (EFE).- It took Syrian refugee Yahya 10 years and a perilous journey across the sea before he was finally granted asylum in Germany. He is one of 6.6 million people who fled Syria’s brutal civil war, many of whom feel a sense of injustice at …