Beirut: Why has there been crisis after crisis in Lebanon? – BBC News

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With Covid-19 infections on the rise, hospitals were already struggling to cope.

Now, they are faced with treating thousands of injured people from Tuesday’s explosion which shook Beirut.

The country is also going through the worst economic crisis since the civil war, and tensions were already high with street demonstrations against the government.

The BBC’s Diplomatic Correspondent Caroline Hawley explains why Lebanon has had decades of unrest.

Video by: Ameer Ahmed, Olivia Lace-Evans and Terry Saunders

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Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. No recent population census has been conducted, but 2007 estimates ranged from slightly more than 1 million to 2.2 million as part of Greater Beirut, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region and the fifteenth-largest in the Arab world.

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    Lebanon, officially known as the Lebanese Republic, is a country in the Levant region of Western Asia, and the transcontinental region of the Middle East.

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