“A ten-year study of poverty in Lebanon has found that, in 2005, 28 percent of the Lebanese population qualified as poor while eight percent lived in extreme poverty with 300,000 people unable to meet basic food and other needs. The findings appeared in two reports launched Wednesday by the United Nations Development Program and the Lebanese Ministry of Social Affairs, NAHARNET reports.”
The trivial: he said, she said, Berri is corrupt, Nasrallah a megalomaniac, Jumblatt a chameleon, Saad Hariri does not know how to fill his father shoes; the same clans and people have the monopole over money and power. Yeah. That we know. Can we please move on and deal with real, serious emergencies?