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Lebanese President Michel Aoun (C) chairs the new government's first cabinet meeting, accompanied by Prime Minister Saad Hariri (C-L), at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of the capital Beirut on February 2, 2019.

Baabda

Lebanon announces government after 8-month delay

by AFPSun 3 Feb 2019Wed 6 Oct 2021

Lebanon’s new government line-up is to see four women take up office, including at the head of the interior and energy ministries

"The president and I are determined to meet again and finish this issue, because the country cannot continue without a government," Hariri said.

Lebanon aid

Hariri warns Lebanon must form govt after months of deadlock

by AFPWed 2 Jan 2019Wed 6 Oct 2021

The slow process has worried observers, as the economy is teetering on the brink of disaster, hit hard by the fallout from the conflict that has ravaged neighbouring Syria since 2011

Lebanon

Lebanon could miss out on aid, France warns

by AFPFri 7 Dec 2018Wed 6 Oct 2021

Lebanon’s economy has looked on the brink of collapse for some time but a Paris conference dubbed CEDRE in April earned it $11bn in aid pledges.

Sigmar Gabriel, who was then Germany's foreign minister, said that Lebanon's neighbours should let the recovering country decide its own fate, angering Saudi Arabia which like Hariri denied that he was coerced.

Adel al-Jubeir

Saudi Arabia, Germany agree to restore ambassadors after Lebanon row

by AFPWed 26 Sep 2018Wed 6 Oct 2021

Saudi Arabia recalled its ambassador from Berlin in November following the eyebrow-raising resignation of Saad Hariri as Lebanon’s prime minister while visiting Riyadh

A Muslim woman walks past a portrait of slain Lebanese former premier Rafiq Hariri displayed near his gravesite in central Beirut.

Assassination of Hariri

Rafiq Hariri murder trial enters final phase with closing arguments

by AFPTue 11 Sep 2018Thu 7 Oct 2021

Hariri’s son Saad, Lebanon’s premier-designate, is expected to attend the special UN-backed court in the Netherlands as prosecutors and defence lawyers make their final statements

Deposit rates will only begin to decline once Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri forms a new government and starts taking steps to rein in the fiscal deficit, according to Jassem Ajaka, professor of economy at the Lebanese University.

Bank Audi

Lack of leadership in Lebanon has banks paying highest interest rates on deposits

by Staff Writer Thu 19 Jul 2018Thu 7 Oct 2021

Average rates on dollar deposits rose to 4.11 percent, a level not seen since February 2008. Similar interest rates in Jordan were at 4.38 percent at the end of May

Hariri has been prime minister since December 2016 and served his first term from 2009 to 2011.

Beirut

Lebanon PM in second trip to Saudi since surprise resignation

by Staff Writer Wed 30 May 2018Thu 7 Oct 2021

Hariri has started consultations to form a coalition government after his Future Movement lost a third of its seats

Emmanuel Macron

Saudi Arabia rejects Macron comment over Hariri ‘detention’

by Staff Writer Tue 29 May 2018Thu 7 Oct 2021

French President says Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri had been held against his will in the kingdom in November

parliamentary election

In pictures: Lebanon’s first parliamentary elections in nine years

by ITPMon 7 May 2018Tue 19 Oct 2021

Polls open on Sunday under a new law based on proportional representation that’s meant to more accurately represent Lebanon’s complex sectarian demographics. With few expecting major changes to the delicate balance of power, the post-ballot focus will be on building a cabinet able to carry out measures sought by donors, a complicated task in a country where divisions have stymied reforms for decades.