Thousands of students took to the streets across Lebanon Thursday to demand a better future as an unprecedented anti-government protest movement entered its fourth week and continued to spread. “I challenge any politician or official to send their children to state schools,” one pupil told a local television channel. Demonstrators blocked employees from clocking in for work at the electricity utility’s headquarters in Beirut Thursday, in protest at the abysmal quality of the mains electricity supply. Prime Minister Saad Hariri bowed to pressure from the street late last month and submitted his government’s resignation but the protest movement did not relent. Demonstrators want other key officials to step down to make way for a technocratic cabinet not aligned with Lebanon’s traditional sectarian-based parties.

Source: The Guardian November 07, 2019 09:22 UTC