In Beirut
In its slow descent into hell, Lebanon has just passed a new symbolic stage: subjected to severe rationing in recent months, the country is now plunged into an almost total blackout. Since Saturday, it has in fact been deprived of public electricity, due to a lack of fuel to supply its power stations. The Mikati government, which had yet pledged, when it was formed in mid-September, to restore power throughout the country as quickly as possible, has not been able to keep this first promise. Only now the generators of private operators spit a few hours of electricity a day to the privileged who can afford this luxury, the price of fuel oil having multiplied by five since the beginning of the crisis.
In the absence of a government response, other actors are positioning themselves.
For them, the Lebanese energy crisis is an opportunity to engage in major political maneuvers: the apparent regional easing, illustrated by
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