A year after the mushroom cloud, Lebanon still bleeds | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News

On August 4, 2020, a fire at the Beirut port ignited one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history. It disfigured the city, took more than 200 lives and shattered Lebanon’s psyche.

With a tailspinning economy, a health sector ravaged by Covid-19 and a future stunted by an intensifying brain drain, Lebanon was already well on its way to collapse before last August 4.Yet the cataclysmic blast that shocked the world and sowed the kind of devastation caused by wars and natural disasters did not mark the end of the free fall.

The blast killed 214 people, wounded thousands and made tens of thousands homeless, at least temporarily. His successor’s attempt to do the same was met with fresh stalling tactics by parliamentarians last month.Volunteer work and foreign funding have allowed for some renovation, but the worst-hit areas, which include some of Beirut’s cultural hotspots and heritage jewels, are a shadow of their former selves.

“Everyone I know is having problems sleeping, is really struggling on a day-to-day basis, holding on to whatever they have left,” says Rantisi.

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