Poverty, Anger Swell In North Lebanon As Crisis Deepens
Youths smash the facade of a shop during a demonstration against dire economic conditions in the downtown district of the Lebanese capital Beirut, late on June 11, 2020. The Lebanese pound sank to a record low on the black market on June 11 despite the authorities’ attempts to halt the plunge of the crisis-hit country’s currency, money changers said.
Ahlam is one of thousands in Tripoli now struggling to put food on the table, as Lebanon’s worst economic crisis since the end of the 1975-1990 civil war has rapidly deepened in recent weeks. She eventually made it to Germany where she reunited in the Cologne area with one of her sons and they lived a “dignified life” for around two years.
The inflation has been a blow in a country where more than 45 percent of the population now lives below the poverty line and about one third of the workforce is unemployed.
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