IMF Delegation Launches Two-Week Mission in Crisis-Hit Lebanon

Lebanon's President Michel Aoun meets the International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegion at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of the capital Beirut, on March 30, 2022. (Dalati & Nohra)

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation kicked off talks in Beirut Wednesday as part of a two-week mission aimed at securing progress towards funding for crisis-hit Lebanon.

The government is hoping to secure a rescue package to exit a deep financial crisis that started in 2019 and has seen most of the country's population fall into poverty.