Beirut
In downtown Beirut, the black and white portraits that American artist Brady Black drew to give a face to the victims of the port explosion on August 4, 2020 are fading.
Glued to the palisade of one of these innumerable abandoned real estate projects, some have already disappeared, replaced by advertisements.
Others degrade slowly.
Posters of the victims of the explosion hang on street poles along a highway in Beirut.
MOHAMED AZAKIR/REUTERS
However, the disaster is not old: barely two years ago, several hundred tons of ammonium nitrate stored in a hangar in the city's port exploded.
The blast, of a power rarely reached for a non-nuclear explosion, devastated almost half of the city, killed nearly 220 people, injured 6,500 others and threw 300,000 residents into the streets.
We feel the weariness of the population.
Fewer and fewer of us are fighting for the truth
Paul Najjar, the father of three-year-old Alexandra, who died in the explosion
But the aftermath of the drama is gradually fading.
Of course, the scaffolding is still present - few private buildings have been rebuilt - and residents have still not returned home for lack of decent housing.
Despite…
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