A year on from the devastating explosion, people are struggling to sleep and PTSD is widespread – amid economic chaosRayan Khatoun has been dreading 4 August. She has been constantly on edge as the anniversary of the port explosion in Beirut approached…
Shattered and scarred: Beirut’s devastation then and now – in pictures
One year on from the huge explosion in the port of Beirut in Lebanon the devastation from the blast is still visibleAt least 200 people were killed, and more than 6,000 injured in the Beirut blast that devastated the port area on 4 August 2020. The exp…
A year on from Beirut explosion, scars and questions remain
Lebanese capital remains a shell of a city as efforts to find who is to blame for tragedy have made little progressWhen his workplace blew to pieces, dockworker Yusuf Shehadi was waiting to hear back from colleagues who had scrambled to help firefighte…
A year after Beirut blast, Lebanon sinks deep into mire of corruption
The response to the explosion in August 2020 has been marked by chaos and paralysis in what is now a failed stateAt ground zero of Lebanon’s apocalypse a stench of dead rats seeps from hulking piles of rotting grain. Broken silos teeter above, their si…