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Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

World Bank Sets Conditions for Lebanon to Access Electricity Funding

Residential buildings are pictured at night during a power cut in Beirut, Lebanon April 27, 2022. Picture taken April 27, 2022. (Reuters)

Lebanon has to audit its state electricity company among other reforms the World Bank has required before it will consider funding Lebanon's worn-down electricity sector, the bank's regional vice president Ferid Belhaj said on Tuesday.

Public provision of electricity in Lebanon has been poor since the country's 1975-90 civil war but has deteriorated further over the last three years as the financial crisis has debilitated the government's ability to secure fuel.

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