The start of the academic year will mark the first time students in Lebanon return to schools after two years of remote learning.
The economic crisis is pushing people in Lebanon to move back from cities to rural areas and villages.
Around 40 percent of skilled medical doctors and 30 percent of registered nurses have already left Lebanon.
The amount will be deposited in Lebanon’s Central Bank, with the allocation including $860 million from 2021 and $275 million from 2009.
Lebanese people have popularized the idea that Syrian refugees are “job stealers,” but that's not actually the case.
The Representative of the Syndicate of Gas Station Owners in Lebanon, George Brax, said so in a radio interview.
ESCWA said that almost three quarters of the Lebanese population is living below the poverty line, and 82 percent in multidimensional poverty.
The spike in fuel prices has taken its toll on everyone, especially taxi drivers whose lives center around the commodity.
With the new resurgence of cases, electricity cuts and shortage of medicine, hospitals may not be able to cope with a new COVID-19 wave.
In the past few months, the fuel crisis has bred a culture of long queues and frequent scuffles at gas stations.
The cards will have a value between $93 and $126, set according to family size and redeemable in cash dollars. But that's not enough.
Lebanese medicine Importers warned on Sunday that the country may run out of essential imported medication by the end of July.