![Lebanese anti-government protesters block the Sidon-Beirut highway in the town of Jiyeh, south of the Lebanese capital Beirut, on January 3, 2020. Lebanon is without a cabinet and in the grips of a deepening economic crisis after a two-month-old protest movement forced Saad Hariri to stand down as prime minister on October 29. / AFP / Mahmoud ZAYYAT](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/QK2GPXZTNIRDJMNDU67I3ZAWCE.jpg?smart=true&auth=5b014d83acd88f0be0e66e301abbf36800116488850cac48a359e7933a969f35&width=400&height=225)
Anti-government protestors block the road on the Sidon-Beirut highway on Friday as protests which began in October rumble on. AFP
Anti-government protestors block the road on the Sidon-Beirut highway on Friday as protests which began in October rumble on. AFP
A six-point plan to rebuild Lebanon’s economy
Debt needs to be re-profiled, banks require a bail-in and peg to the US dollar should be abandoned
Dr Nasser Saidi
05 January, 2020