International donors have pledged $298 million in emergency aid after Beirut's devastating explosion, French organizers say. The needs are immense, but so is the question of how to ensure the aid is not diverted in a country notorious for corruption.
for the blast that devastated the capital does not profit from its destruction. The French presidency said France contributed 30 million euros .
International leaders, government officials and international organization participated Sunday in the teleconference co-organized by France and the United Nations to bringInternational diplomacy usually calls for careful language. Rigged votes are “irregular.” The response to furious protests should be “measured.” Disappearing funds require “transparency.
But actual rebuilding requires massive imports of supplies and equipment. The contracts and subcontracts have given Lebanon’s ruling elite its wealth and power, while leaving the country with crumbling roads, regular electricity cuts, trash that piles on the streets and intermittent water supplies. Prior aid, Houry said, ended up as a tool in the hands of the political leaders, who kept their slice and doled out jobs and money to supporters.
On Saturday, they seized offices of the Economy Ministry, hauling away files they said would show corruption around the sale and distribution of wheat. Lebanon’s wheat stockpile, stored next to the warehouse filled with ammonium nitrate, was destroyed in the explosion. “The decision-makers and the public servants who are in charge of these files are still in their positions. Until now, we didn’t see any solution to the problem,” he said.
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