Show of solidarity after blast as Lebanon braces for protest

The visits by the head of the Arab League and the European Council president come as the country braced for large anti-government protests amid popular anger against Lebanon’s political leadership. The country’s ruling class, made up mostly of former civil war-era leaders, is blamed for widespread corruption, incompetence and mismanagement that contributed to Tuesday’s explosion.

The explosion of thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate stored at the port, apparently set off by a fire, was the biggest in Lebanon’s history and caused an estimated $10-15 billion worth of damage, according to Beirut’s governor. It also left hundreds of thousands of people homeless.The blast came at a time when Lebanon is passing through its worst economic and financial crisis in decades making it difficult for many people who had their properties damaged to fix them.

“We will support Lebanon through all available means,” Ahmed Aboul Gheit, the secretary-general of the 22-member Arab League told reporters after meeting President Michel Aoun on Saturday morning. Aboul Gheit said he would take part in a donors conference for Lebanon in France on Sunday and convey Lebanon’s demands to the international community.

International aid has been flowing to Lebanon for days and several field hospitals have been set up around Beirut to help treat the wounded.

Did this shipment come from Russia in 2013, bound for Mozambique? Same tonnage on the manifest.....hmmm!

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Show of solidarity after blast as Lebanon braces for protestSenior officials from the Middle East and Europe start arriving in Lebanon in a show of solidarity with the tiny country that suffered a deadly blast this week which caused large-scale damage to the capital Beirut. In 1917 my home Halifax Nova Scotia experanced a similar event being the largest man made explosion till the hydrogen bomb. Unfortunately blindness was a major injury happening from onlookers when the explosion took place. vvanwilgenburg Yep, just pretend that Syria, Russia, China and Iran have not sent any aid to the Lebanese. Nope, it is just the Europeans and the regressive head-chopping rulers of the Arabian Gulf that are sending all the help
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