NOW – Recent numbers indicate that Lebanon’s cholera outbreak may be stabilizing, as the government and international NGOs have scrambled to control its spread. But structural issues are left untouched, making a full recovery unlikely.
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Mouais – Récit de voyage critique. Alors que l’Égypte s’apprête à accueillir la COP27, retour sur un séjour au pays des Pharaons, où le tourisme blanchit le régime dictatorial du président Fatah al-Sissi
Read more "L’Égypte piégée entre anciens pharaons et nouveau dictateur"
Middle East Eye – Health officials say outbreak is much worse than official figures suggest, as hospitals in impoverished northern Akkar region overwhelmed.
Read more "Lebanon: Cholera cases soar with refugee camp in north at centre of outbreak"
NOW Lebanon – The outbreak may be far worse than ministry numbers show, health officials warned. Meanwhile, Lebanese and Syrian inhabitants of Akkar faced cholera with resignation.
Read more "Cholera update: Hundreds of unreported cases in Akkar"
Frankfurter Rundschau – Im Norden des Libanon breitet sich die Cholera aus. Die ersten Fälle wurden in Flüchtlingslagern in Akkar gemeldet, dort sind die Lebensbedingungen katastrophal. Eine Reportage.
Read more "Cholera im Libanon: Menschen von Regierung „völlig im Stich gelassen“"
NOW Lebanon – Akkar refugee camps recorded Lebanon’s first cases of cholera in years. The sanitary conditions there are a testimony to the region’s marginalization, and its inhabitants weary of an epidemic.
Read more "Cholera in the time of crisis"
NOW Lebanon – As Turkey, Iran, Russia, and the US battle for influence in northeast Syria (Rojava), its inhabitants fear for their lives and for their social experiment.
Read more "“We are nothing but pawns in their game”"
NOW Lebanon – After three FPM parliament members proposed to split Beirut’s municipality into two, debate have risen as to how to manage the capital – and what its identity actually is.
Read more "A divided city"
NOW Lebanon – Lebanon’s economy is set to ride a high tide this summer, thanks to an influx in tourists. But at what risks for the health sector, and for which future?
Read more "A summer of illusions"
NOW Lebanon – The crisis is pushing more citizens to abandon their cars for Lebanon’s chaotic commuting. France’s donation of 50 new buses revives hopes for an organized transportation system, but also raises many questions around its diplomacy.
Read more "Politics on wheels"
NOW Lebanon – Lebanon’s working classes are all but represented in the new parliament, although a new wave of politicians and newly elected MPs promise to do politics “for the people”.
Read more "Unrepresented"
NOW Lebanon – More than half of all registered voters on national average, and up to two-thirds in Tripoli, did not cast their ballots. Abstention, rather than voting, tells the real story of the Lebanese people, experts say.
Read more "The silenced majority"
Philippe Pernot 