Insights and Stories on Beirut

Kuwait to rebuild Beirut port grain silo after blast

Aug. 24, 2020 at 2:36 am CDT

Beirut | Reuters — Kuwait said it will rebuild Lebanon’s only large grain silo that was destroyed by the massive Beirut port explosion, raising fears of food shortages in a country already in financial meltdown. The destruction of the 120,000-tonne capacity structure at the port, the main entry point for […]

Who owned the chemicals that blew up Beirut? No one will say

Aug. 11, 2020 at 4:51 pm CDT

By Jonathan Saul Lisa Barrington Maria Vasilyeva

Missing Beirut silo worker’s family clings to hope

Aug. 10, 2020 at 1:29 pm CDT

By Yara Abi Nader

After blast, Lebanon has less than a month’s grain reserves

Aug. 5, 2020 at 4:40 pm CDT

By Ellen Francis maha-el-dahan

Wheat in Beirut’s port granaries not usable

Aug. 4, 2020 at 8:13 pm CDT

By Reuters

Syrian war spurs first withdrawal from doomsday seed vault

Sep. 21, 2015 at 8:15 pm CDT

Oslo | Reuters –– Syria’s civil war has prompted the first withdrawal of seeds from a “doomsday” vault built in an Arctic mountainside to safeguard global food supplies, officials said Monday. The seeds, including samples of wheat, barley and grasses suited to dry regions, have been requested by researchers elsewhere […]

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