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'17 October revolution'), [14] were a series of civil protests in Lebanon that began after the Lebanese cabinet announced financial measures on 17 October 2019. [15] These national protests were triggered by planned taxes on gasoline, tobacco, and VoIP calls on applications such as WhatsApp, [16] [17] [18] but quickly expanding into a country ...
Tesbih Habbal and Muzna Hasnawi, Syrian editors writing in The Nation in October 2019, argued that the 2018–2019 sustained street protests in the Arab world starting with Sudan in December 2018, Algeria in February 2019, Egypt and Iraq in September and October 2019, Syria and Lebanon in October 2019, constituted a second wave of the process ...
October 13 - 2019 Lebanon forest fires: About 100 forest fires flared up across Lebanon overnight, and lasted until October 15. One person was killed from the fire. [3] October 17 - 2019–20 Lebanese protests; October 29 - Prime Minister Saad Hariri resigns in response to protests against the government. [4]
Lebanon, one of the most heavily indebted countries in the world, already was dealing with a severe fiscal crisis before the protests began, one rooted in years of heavy borrowing and expensive ...
A local official for a Lebanese political party was shot dead by soldiers trying to open a road closed by protesters in southern Beirut late Tuesday, the army reported, marking the first death in ...
Hariri resigned Oct. 29 amid nationwide protests that have accused the entire political elite of corruption and mismanagement amid Lebanon's worst economic crisis in decades. Protests turn violent ...
2019 Lebanese protests in Antelias. Large-scale anti-government demonstrations ignited in the country from 17 October. Initially triggered in response to a rise in gas and tobacco prices as well as a new tax on messaging applications, [5] the demonstrations quickly turned into a revolution against the stagnation of the economy, unemployment, Lebanon's sectarian and hereditary political system ...
Lebanon is facing a deep-running fiscal crisis as it staggers under one of the highest debt ratios in the world, at $86 billion or more than 150% of the country's gross domestic product.