In Beirut
The relative political stabilization of Lebanon will have been short-lived.
A little over a month after taking office, which ended a thirteen-month vacancy at the head of the executive, the government of Najib Mikati is already in crisis and facing a new storm, which that worsen the collapse that has been going on in this country for two years.
The blow came from Saudi Arabia, which announced the cessation of all its imports from the country of the Cedar, the recall of its ambassador to Beirut, and gave forty-eight hours to the Lebanese ambassador in Riyadh to leave the kingdom.
Bahrain followed suit, then Kuwait, followed by the United Arab Emirates, but Oman and Qatar remained on the reserve.
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