A Syrian refugee girl stands at a makeshift camp by Taybeh village, in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley. (JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images)

Lebanon, Middle East and North Africa, Refugees, Syrian refugee crisis

Nearly 90 per cent of Syrian refugees in Lebanon have been trapped in a vicious cycle of crippling debt

21/11/2015 Frank Elbers

With winter approaching and no end in sight of the civil war, Syrian refugees in Lebanon are running out of time and money.

Nearly 90 per cent of Lebanon’s over one million Syrian refugees are today trapped in a vicious cycle of debt, according to the findings of a recent assessment by UNHCR, UNICEF and WFP, the World Food Program.

Full article published in the National Post on 21 November 2015.

Southeast Europe – Zuidoost-Europa correspondent