The Minister of Economy said on Thursday that Lebanon’s decision to disarm Hezbollah was as important for the country’s recovery as reforming the failing financial sector.
Lebanon’s measures to disarm all non-state groups and assert full state control are as important as financial reforms for the economy to recover after years of crisis, the Minister of Economy said on Thursday.
“You need economic reforms, but you also need security and political reforms,” Amer Bisat told The Associated Press after a cabinet meeting during which the Lebanese army reported progress on a plan to disarm Hezbollah and non-state groups and extend its deployment in southern Lebanon.
Oracle, Israel, and the long shadow cast over Lebanon’s data
Lebanon’s agreement with Oracle promises digital reform, but risks increasing the dependence and vulnerability of a weakened state, still at war with Israel.
In a country where public administration struggles to fulfill even its most basic functions, the announcement of a training program for 50,000 people in advanced digital skills was presented as a bold promise of renewal.
By partnering with a global tech giant like Oracle to upskill civil servants and students in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, the Lebanese state seemed eager to project an image of transformation, suggesting it was not merely managing collapse, but attempting to modernize despite itself.
