Zeina Khodr

Two for­mer min­is­ters dis­miss US ac­cu­sa­tions of cor­rup­tion and pro­vid­ing ma­te­r­i­al sup­port to Hezbol­lah.

A month af­ter the ex­plo­sion, hun­dreds of homes are dam­aged, and peo­ple wait for gov­ern­ment sup­port.

Hun­dreds of Syr­i­ans who worked or lived near Beirut’s port were in­jured in the ex­plo­sion.

A to­tal of 25 peo­ple are fac­ing charges over the Au­gust 4 blast that killed more than 200 peo­ple, but many are call­ing for more ac­count­abil­i­ty.

A week af­ter the Beirut ex­plo­sion, peo­ple mourn the vic­tims with a mix of grief and rage, as more ev­i­dence emerges that the gov­ern­ment ig­nored warn­ings.

Lebanese au­thor­i­ties have tak­en into cus­tody 16 peo­ple as part of an in­ves­ti­ga­tion into the Beirut port ware­house ex­plo­sion.

Dam­age from ex­plo­sion, which of­fi­cials have linked to some 2,750 tonnes of am­mo­ni­um ni­trate stored at the port, may be worth up to $15bn.

Up to 300,000 peo­ple have lost their homes with dam­age es­ti­mat­ed at bil­lions of dol­lars.

Decades of cor­rup­tion and mis­man­age­ment are blamed for run­ning the econ­o­my into the ground.