Tag: Lebanon

Lebanon mourns after huge explosion kills at least 78, injures over 4,000 others

President Michel Aoun said 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate had been stored unsafely in a warehouse for six years.

Maids dumped outside embassy as Covid-19 pandemic bites

Scores of maids have been dumped outside a Beirut embassy amid an ongoing economic crisis in Lebanon, heightened by the coronavirus pandemic. Lebanon’s economy is collapsing with the country’s currency losing 70% of its value in the past six months. Now many of the country’s middle class claim they can no longer afford to pay […]

Nigerian woman who was put up for sale on Facebook refuses to return home

The woman was being sold for $1,000 (Ksh106, 000). 

Bailed tycoon Ghosn ‘escapes’ to Lebanon from ‘rigged’ Japan

Once revered for rescuing the car firm, Ghosn was arrested in a Tokyo airport in a case that sent shockwaves through the business community.