{"id":61630,"date":"2021-11-12T11:10:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T11:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lebanonnewsgazette.com\/?p=61630"},"modified":"2021-11-12T11:10:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T11:10:37","slug":"lebanon-failing-its-people-un-poverty-envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lebanonnewsgazette.com\/lebanon-failing-its-people-un-poverty-envoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon failing its people: UN poverty envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Lebanese government is failing its people, the UN envoy on extreme poverty Olivier De Schutter said Friday, warning that the country is on course to becoming a failed state. “Lebanon is not a failed state yet, but it is a failing state, with a government failing its population,” he told a press conference in Beirut at the end of a 12-day visit to Lebanon. “I saw scenes in Lebanon that I never imagined I would see in a middle income country,” he said. Lebanon’s fragile government, formed in September to stem the country’s worst-ever financial crash, has yet to take serious action to stop it…<\/p>\n

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Published by Al-Araby The Lebanese government is failing its people, the UN envoy on extreme poverty Olivier De Schutter said Friday, warning that the country is on course to becoming a failed state. “Lebanon is not a failed state yet, but it is a failing state, with a government failing its population,” he told a … <\/p>\n