Wednesday 5 August 2020

Lebanon

The pictures from Lebanon are just awful. For a country already suffering in so many ways, to have this terrible tragedy occur is heart-breaking. At this early stage, it does look like a disaster of mismanagement and negligence rather than anything more sinister, but that is little comfort to the hundreds of bereaved families, to the thousands of injured, to the tens of thousands of homeless, and to an entire country that relied on the port for bringing in food and other essential supplies. Even in the Covid world in which we live, let's hope the international community rallies round with aid and support.