UNICEF: 77% of Lebanese Households Have no Sufficient Money to Buy Food

The United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) said that 77% of the Lebanese households have no sufficient money to buy foodstuffs throughout the standing month.

The Times, a UK daily newspaper, published a report authored by experts of the UNICEF that touched on the collapsing living conditions in Lebanon.

The report indicated that foodstuff and medicaments rut out in Lebanon amid a deteriorating economy in that country.

The newspaper reviewed a number of reasons that led the Lebanese economy to devastation over the last few years.

The Times pointed out that the havoc in Lebanon was unprecedented in history in a country.

It shed light on the rates in poverty in Lebanon before two years which hit 26% according to statistics prepared by experts of the World Bank (WB).

The WB pointed out Lebanon, in the previous decades, was a flourishing country with an overwhelming large middle class which was an unordinary matter in the Arab World outside the oil-rich countries.

The Times analyzed the current situation in Lebanon as a country stranded in a geopolitical schism.

The Shi'ite population takes the side of both Syria and Iran; meanwhile, the Sunnis receive historic support from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and other countries in the Middle East.

On the other hand, the Lebanese Christians are torn between the east and west due to the sects in the Christian camp.

However, France has urged the Lebanese politicos to pick a new Prime Minister as soon as it is possible after the designated PM Saad Hariri apologized to form the new government in Lebanon after maneuvers lasted for months.

According to a statement made by The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a new international conference will be convened on August 4 over an initiative launched by France's President Emanuel Macron and the United Nations.

France's Foreign Minister  Jean-Yves Le Drian commented on apologizing of Hariri as saying that   Lebanon suffers from self-destruction and the political echelon takes full responsibility for that.