Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament announced the necessity of declaring a “financial” state of emergency to save the Lebanese pound, which witnessed a 75% compared to the dollar.
This statement was a clear indication of the impossibility of finding a solution to secure the salaries of migrant workers, especially those belonging to the Ethiopian community, whose work contracts stipulate the necessity of receiving their salaries in US dollars.
In return, Ethiopian authorities continue their reluctance to find solutions for the deportation of their nationals, and they are satisfied with just promises to secure aircraft and reassurances to pledge quarantine expenses for their citizens to return to their country.
Despite all the efforts made by the Lebanese civil society to support Ethiopian workers, especially the Caritas Foundation which provided shelter to the 35 Ethiopians who had protested in front of their country’s consulate, a group of decided to return to the sit-in in front of the consulate in order to return to their country.
It is noteworthy that Lebanon is living under an unprecedented economic and social crisis that caused massive public protests before the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and renewed calls for its recent resumption in the absence of the horizon of reform despite the comprehensive government change.
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